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Some pictures of rocket launches.

public point of view at the launch site at the ESTEC facilities in Noordwijk

preparing a rocket at the annual dutch water rocket championships (august 2005) Info about the staging system here

my two stage rocket up in the air (august 2005)

Rocket launch on my neigbours birthday party, it landed in the river and altough some boats came to the rescue currents took it down river. (may 2005)

first succesfull parachute launch in (december 2004.)

2 parachute launch parachute opened but drifted into a tree,a week of work up in the tree :-) (december 2004.)

3 parachute launch: parachute failure (december 2004.)

(december 2004.)

test cable tie launcher (december 2004.)