Pre Rocket Lanuch

Today was the first day to put together our rocket.  In this picture I am holding our almost finished rocket.  We used one and a half bottles for the body and the base and one fourth of another one as a temporary cone for today because we didn't have a cone.  On our first trial our rocket was in the air for 8.9 seconds.  I thought that was a very good sign because the minimum for today was just to make 5 and our rocket exceeded by quite a lot.  On the second trial our rocket lasted in the air for about 4 and a half seconds.  This was because our parachute didn't deploy and instead of the rocket coasting down it fell super fast.  Some of the things we could fix is probably the fins.  Paper is really light and it isn't going to do much so we are going to replace it with card board.  The top one fourth of the bottle is going to be replaced with a cone because it will fit better on the top.  I am really excited to see how our final launch is gonna turn out and I hope it is better with all of our changes.