It’s with extremely happiness that I declare today, September 20th, 2015, the official birthday of “The Aurora Program”. This project was created by me and Nilson (yeah, you are going to read his logs too!) in an attempt to create a rocket model using rocket candy as a propellant. So let’s start answering a few questions:
1. What the fuck is rocket candy?
Rocket candy is the mixture of 66%, in mass, of potassium nitrate and 33% of sugar (yeah, fucking sugar!). So, if you cook them (mixture in water and put on the fire till all the water evaporates) you have solid fuel that looks like solid milk candy, or as we call in Brazil doce de leite.
2. Why is this project called “The Aurora Program”?
Firstly because is a fancy name. Secondly because Aurora was the name of my deceased little bunny, who died a week before I started to think about making this project, so this is my tribute to her!
3. Why writing personal logs about the project?
This idea I just had with my friend Nilson. We’ve read a book called “The Martian” by Andy Weir, and in the book there is this guy named Mark Watney (by the way, fuck you Mark Watney for being such an awesome character and fuck you Andy Weir for being such a good writer!) who is an astronaut that is left behind alone in the surface of Mars. He writes logs telling about his 549 days on Mars.
So I’ll be writing logs whenever the project status changes. Hopefully tomorrow there is going to be another log.
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