Shredding the envelope

Who doesn't find the idea of an event named Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships intoxicating? The moment I heard it I was sold. I wouldn't have cared if the next thing I was told was that they hold it on a godforsaken dry lake bed in the middle of nowhere. Which is a good thing because that's the next thing I was told.

Turns out most big rocket events happen far from population centers (and when you think about it...). Check out the frigid launch we attended at the Mohave Desert's Lucerne Dry Lake Bed. Talk about remote. You'd think they'd at least have a Starbucks there by now. I mean, the Rocketry Organization of California hosts public launches there every month. What gives, rocket fuel behemoths?

At Maddox Dairy in California's San Joaquin Valley you can at least get cream for your coffee. Rocketeers there took us out in a pasture and shot off the biggest damn rocket you're allowed to shoot off in California. Of course it was nuts. So were the rocketeers we met there. (And I mean that in a good way.)

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