Sure, I’ll take it, we will use it up eventually. There’s about half a bale in the communal supply now. - GDS

At 10:00 AM, it was 45°F in Champaign, with clear skies and a southwest wind at 9 mph. Conditions look good for our launch, so we will meet as scheduled at noon in the south half of the Dodds Park soc

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We have a rocket launch scheduled tomorrow, Saturday, February 27, at Dodds Park in Champaign. Setup will begin at 12:00 noon, probably in the south half of the soccer field parking lots. Our waiver a

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I can try making the announcements at 10:00 for a while and we’ll see whether that results in any more false alarms. It will mean depending on the short term aviation forecasts a bit more. I’ll try th

Just an early heads up that the forecast looks like it MIGHT be favorable for our scheduled launch this Saturday (2/27). (The wind is still a bit iffy.) If it happens, we'll meet at noon at Dodds Park

Unfortunately the closest Krispy Kreme store appears to be in Bloomington. Anybody want to make a field trip to pick up a couple dozen? - GDS

We have no absolute temperature limit. We’ve been out on some pretty brutally cold days in the past. The 0°F wind chill rule is somewhat arbitrary based mainly on what is safe for humans standing arou

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At 11:00 AM, it was 13°F in Champaign, with broken clouds at 1300 feet, a north wind at 15 mph, and a wind chill of -3°F. Some snow is expected this afternoon, but probably won't amount to much. Due t

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We have a rocket launch scheduled tomorrow, Saturday, February 13, at Dodds Park in Champaign. This will be our first launch since October due to the recent loosening of state COVID-19 restrictions on

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In the article, they said this would allow them to lower prices across the board on everything in the store. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that. - GDS

Hobby Lobby is ending its longstanding weekly 40% off coupon deals at the end of February. https://www.wcia.com/news/hobby-lobby-to-end-40-off-coupon-at-the-end-of-february/ - GDS

They are really, really successful at making big explosions and positioning the cameras well to get good pictures of them. :-) But that’s half the fun. - GDS

Well, that was kind of anticlimactic. - GDS

Oops, Monday. - GDS

Brig. Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, 97, passed away just before 9:00 PM ET on Tuesday, December 7. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/us/chuck-yeager-death/index.html - GDS

The Arecibo radio telescope collapsed completely on Tuesday morning, after a few months of increasingly dire news about its condition: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-arecibo-telescope-

David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader in the first three “Star Wars” films, has died at age 85. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/29/darth-vader--dave-prowse-dies-aged-85 He also had

It’s the butterfly effect. BECAUSE we cancelled the launch, we didn’t move around as much getting ready, loading our vehicles, ordering stuff from Chris that caused delivery trucks to move. This creat

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Just a reminder - there will be no rocket launch on Saturday, November 28 as originally scheduled. As Jonathan posted in his message here last Friday, we have decided to suspend all launches as long a

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At 9:00 AM, it was 38°F in Decatur, with light rain and a south wind at 10 mph. The ceiling was 2500'. Wind and rain are in the forecast for the remainder of the day and evening, so today's launch is

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