The first thing that Autrina, Elyse, and I had to do was design our rocket and make dimensions that would best fit out motor, meaning that we have a more powerful motor so we want to make a bigger rocket so that it is balanced. If we made a smaller rocket it would fly in different directions and not straight. We decided to make the rocket body 18 inches, the nose cone 4 inches so that the entire rocket is 20 inches. In designing the rocket we had to keep in mind the weight of everything, and tried to use the lightest material possible. To make our rocket look the best we got a lot of our designs from model rockets we liked.
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