It’s an automatic parachute deployment system that you build into the nose-cone of your rocket. The main portion of the build is made out of plastic soda bottles (2 liter size) to end up with a ...

In this project, we will also optimize our rocket — by changing the fin or nose cone shape — but we'll take it one step ...

Designed by German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun ... the Air Force had adopted the blunt-body shape for the nose cone of its Atlas ICBM, which was then in development. But it wasn’t until ...