Homemade High Altitude Rocket (On-board Video) travelling to 121000 ft. Space is amazing and our atmosphere is beautiful.

Stats:

• 8" diameter
• 167.5" long
• 329 lbs
• Q-18,000
• 143,000 N-sec
• 4,000 lbs of thrust for 8 seconds
• Case-bonded, Fin-O-Cyl Grain
• Welded Aluminum Fin Can
• Graphite Throat in Phenolic Carrier with Aluminum Retainer/Expansion Cone
• 2 Timers
• 4 GPS
• 1 Accelerometer
• 1 Cosmic Ray Detector
• 2 GoPro HeroHD
• 1 FlipHD
• Black Powder Actuated Pneumatic Cylinder Recovery
• Custom Launch Tower
• 121,000' in 92 seconds
• 3,200 ft per second
• 15+ g's

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Not MY Uranus, Google! Okay, there is no way they did not do that on purpose. The number of jokes that can be made is astronomical.

Ah, Uranus. The butt of all planet jokes.

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A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth

The earth and universe is so beautiful, it makes us so small and our problems, politics, fights and wars so meaningless.

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