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San Antonio College ♦ www.theranger.org
6 ♦ March 30, 2001
It doesn’t take a
rocket scientist
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Photo story by Victor Allen Arnold
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Instructor James Goslin in the Krueger
satellite tracking lab, top right.
A successful launch of a scale model
Titan-Gemini rocket blasts from the pad,
top left. Krueger program Coordinator
Calvin Best said hands-on application
makes the program relevant and interest-
ing for the students.
first-hand that sci-
ence can be a blast.
Former SAC math Professor Don Cosgrove
prepares a rocket for launch, above. The
San Antonio High Power Rocket
Association launches rockets alongside
students’ rockets at Krueger School of
Applied Technologies events.
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set up for something like
that; they have the facilities."
To maintain peak excite-
ment at the Krueger events,
members of the San Antonio
Power Rocketry
Association often launch
pulse-pounding Class M
Program teaches middle school students
rocket engineering, construction
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Goslin, a former SAC student who teaches
Krueger School of Applied Technologies
radio-satellite-communication classes,
uses a 70-centimeter tracking antenna to
keep tabs on the rocket, above.
Krueger's could be started at Center's distance learning
control center, he said.
This connection would
enable Krueger students to
conduct virtual visits to the
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world.
This real-world applica-
tion was driven home Feb.
10 at the Hondo Municipal
Airport when seventh and engineering principles, elec-
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nications principles," he
said. "They do all this from
scratch, and they have to High
integrate all these systems
together; it's a lot of work."
Krueger Instructor James rockets alongside the smaller
Goslin, who was an English rockets launched by Krueger
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Training and professional
certification are required for
Air Force, Morris, a
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launched countless rockets.
"We don't launch rockets
just to launch rockets," he
said. "That's why we are
launching payloads today, the North East Independent
School District's Krueger
facilities.
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About 200 Krueger
students will watch the
launch of hand-built V2
rockets at 9 a.m. April 21
at Hondo Municipal
Airport. The airport is
adjacent to the Rick Taylor
Recreational Center, 601
Harper in Hondo.
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a former professor at this
| college, the youngsters also application makes the pro-
h know how their classroom gram relevant and interest-
I studies relate to the real ing.
"Unlike some programs,
we don't insult the kid's
intelligence," Best said. '
"Kids are introduced to
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And thanks to the efforts
of three former students and studied astrophotography at
this college, said hands-on
tudents at Krueger eighth grade Krueger stu-
School of Applied dents launched rockets they
Technologies know had designed and built from
scratch in the classroom.
Krueger program Coor-
dinator Calvin Best, who
major at this college in 1985,
agreed.
"This is the best way to
learn — hands-on," Goslin people interested in launch-
said. "We teach the theory of ing Class M rockets.
rocketry in the classroom." Association member Don
The students use the Cosgrove, who taught math-
known weight of the rockets ematics at this college from
they will build, the thrust of 1976 to 1992, said these pow-
erful crafts reach altitudes
more than a mile above the
Earth's surface.
The rockets soar so far
above the surface that
launch technicians must
maintain constant radio con-
tact with the Federal
Aviation Administration
during the flight.
The FAA's role, Cosgrove
said, is to divert aircraft from
the area and maintain radar
vigilance to avert midair col-
lisions.
The Krueger program's
We want to teach that rock-
ets are tools."
Morris believes that a
rocketry program similar to direct link to Johnson Space
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this college.
"Of course," Morris said,
"SAC students could do
things at a more advanced
level. SAC really seems to be Johnson Space Station.
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Four Krueger School of Applied
Technologies students prepare to launch
hand-built rockets at Hondo Municipal
Airport, right. These rockets fly more than
500 feet in the air.
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the engine their rocket will
use and wind speed assump-
tions to estimate how high
their rockets will fly, Goslin
said.
"The kids launch their
rockets, and trackers esti-
mate maximum altitude,
using homemade instru-
ments," he said.
"The measurements are
then taken back to the school
and compared to the esti-
mates they made in class."
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bob
Morris, a SAC alumnus who
contributes to the Krueger success has caught the atten-
program as a "community tion of the National
professional," said the Aeronautics and Space
Hondo launch was all about Administration, Best said,
demonstrating relevance. Best said NASA officials
Before retiring from the recently suggested that
former Krueger "develop a partner-
engineer, had ship, utilizing distance learn-
ing technologies through the
Internet."
NASA officials are sched-
uled for an April 20 visit to
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