{"id":18747,"date":"2023-07-23T22:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2023-07-23T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:29:13","slug":"2023-07-23-i-was-into-rockets-when-i-was-a-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=18747","title":{"rendered":"2023-07-23 I Was Into Rockets When I Was A Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I joined the Reaction Research Society when I was a teenager.  It&#8217;s a rocket club, still going strong: rrs.org.  We went out to the Mojave desert to launch homemade rockets.  Some went up to a mile high, some exploded on the launch pad.  They used a mixture of powdered zinc and sulfur, which burns very fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But at home I made some of this homemade rocket fuel.  It&#8217;s made from saltpeter and sugar.  My high school friend and I made some on his mom&#8217;s stove, but it got too hot and started on fire and filled the whole kitchen with smoke down to a few feet above the floor.  &#x1f62f;&#x1f62f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Making Sugar Rocket Fuel\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGWa22gmy_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the Reaction Research Society when I was a teenager. It&#8217;s a rocket club, still going strong: rrs.org. We went out to the Mojave desert to launch homemade rockets. Some went up to a mile high, some exploded on the launch pad. They used a mixture of powdered zinc and sulfur, which burns very<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=18747\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870,1601,338,293,642,284,2481,1284],"tags":[2480,2477,2478,2476,2479,1390],"class_list":["post-18747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-space","category-biography","category-building-projects-and-kits","category-do-it-yourself","category-energy","category-history","category-rockets","category-video-books-documents-literature","tag-home-made","tag-reaction-research-society","tag-rocket-fuel","tag-rrs-org","tag-saltpeter","tag-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18749,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions\/18749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}