Hey guys, I haven’t posted much recently because I’ve spending all my waking moments on homework and my research paper. I conducted this test on Monday with a custom designed oxidizer injector that I made!

I’ve been working on a new test cart with my team for the last few months. We plugged everything in to do some systems checks and noticed we have a 84% noise reduction from our previous setup, due to our simplified design! Blue is old raw data, orange is the new raw data.

Woah! Congratulations Firefly!

Wife: “Come to bed it’s late!” Me: “Ok-Ok, just let me finish reading about lunar regolith trajectories first” Thanks Dr. Metzger, very interesting!

I’m on spring break in Boston, we went to a Bruins game tonight. Lots of fighting, recommend it 10/10!

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mens et Manus

Newport Beach!

Mahi Mahi for dinner @ The Crab Cooker

Hmm.. that’s a first

My dad built this plant. It’s very frustrating to see them shut it down so soon. We need to be making more energy, not less. Anyone who calls this a failure doesn’t understand how important pathfinder technology is. Chicago Pile-1 was not a failure, and neither is Ivanpah.

This test was interesting, the plume was so rich that there was some secondary combustion! Some shock diamonds are also visible because the plume is overexpanded exiting the nozzle on this run.

Imagine riding on top of this all the way to the moon

Bad Daddy’s, Huntsville AL

I just spent all day learning how to rebuild 1970s Marotta valves with Tim Pickens. These valves were made during the Apollo years and now we’re using them to run our rocket test stand. Transcendent!

This is a view from a hot fire from a new stand with a new motor today. This is the seventh rocket test stand project I’ve worked on in the past 15 months. This one was cool, all remotely controlled oxidizer loading / unloading with solenoid valves. I also got to machine that

Build rockets.