Rocket science is a project challenge unto itself. So goes the time honored expression. We use compressed air to fill a vessel designed to double as a rocket launcher support. We have an air pressure gauge to support the consistent independent variable logged as to launch energy. The gauge that used to register a maximum of forty pounds per square inch broke. The closest replacement we could find registers a maximum of one hundred pounds per square inch. Youth today do not want to let the top part of that gauge go unused so it comes as no surprise that rocket launch pressures have increased significantly. I am told that science is all about testing the extremes of the structural model design envelope. It comes as no surprise that we are experiencing some model rocket fuselage seam blowouts as we near the new maximum launch pressure. I am told that model rocket performance is “out of this world!” But is it? So we devise an experiment using scientific method to see if we really are performing as well as expected at higher pressures.

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