Log 2

Today I’ve just remembered (I didn’t remembered a fucking thing, I’ve just read yesterday’s log!) that I forgot to answer the most important question of all: Why build rockets?

The answer to this question is simple, firstly because I can and secondly because I want to! No, seriously, the true answer is because I love rocket science! Since I was a kid, I used to memorize planet’s names (sorry Pluto, I will never forget you!), mission and astronauts names and I like to read about NASA’s history, how they manage to go to the Moon in the end of the 60’s and how they manage not to go to the Moon for the next 43 years (are you kidding me NASA?!). Then I realize, after playing more than 150 hours of Kerbal Space Program, that I want to use my engineering skills (yes, I’m a fucking engineer!) to build my own rocket model. It’s important to say that the goal of the Aurora Program is to learn about rocket science and have fun. Nobody needs to get hurt in the process, so safety is our main priority. “We are sure as hell not gonna hurt someone on my watch. Failure is not an option!”

Ok, after telling that, let’s get to today’s real log topic: Von Brawn’s measurement station. Probably you are thinking about asking who the fuck is Von Brawn? My answer to this question is simple, google it you fucking moron! Since our main goal is safety, we are not interested in building rocket engines and light them up pointing to the sky right away. Instead, we (when I say we, I’m talking about me and my pal Nilson) are going to “science the shit out of this!” We are building this measurement station so we can measure the thrust and impulse that the rocket engines can generate. With this information we can estimate the maximum altitude and distance the rocket can achieve. We can also test the best way to cook solid fuel (as I already told in yesterday’s log, we are not cooking hamburgers, you fat fuck!) and the best way to assemble a rocket engine.

So Von Brawn’s measurement station is basically composed of a rail with a platform and a load cell. The load cell will measure the thrust generated by the engine and with this thrust we can estimate the impulse by integrating it over time, isn’t that right Sir Isaac Newton? (I don’t even know if it was Isaac Newton who proposed this, but it seems to me that Newton’s name fits in every science achievement there is!) So in the end, the engines will be tested in the ground so we can collect every data there is about it before sending it burning to the sky, and hopefully not blowing anything up in the process.

Ok, I’ve already talked too much for today, next log I’m gonna bring something better, or not, cause the log is mine and I write whatever I want on it!