Rocket Bloggiversary

This is the one year anniversary of The Rocket N00b blog! I started this thing as a total n00b, just weeks after launching my first kit, the Estes Der Red Max.

At first, this blog was just a way for me to put up some pictures of what I was doing, and maybe coax the few friends I thought might read this into joining me in the awesome hobby I'd just discovered.

In the intervening time, I have:

• Found out just how alive and well the hobby of rocketry really is
• Learned a ton about how rockets work - especially what keeps them stable
• Learned to design my own rockets - something I didn't know was possible when I started
• Built a number of great kits
• Designed and built several of my own rockets, most of which worked pretty well
• Started building mid power rockets - and launched a couple
• Convinced a few skeptics that it was fun to go watch a rocket launch
• Had one of my rocket videos featured on Make magazine's Facebook page
• Taught rocketry to kids
• Recorded my first appearance on The Rocketry Show
• Joined the National Association of Rocketry
• Had over 100,000 pageviews!

I didn't expect any of this. It's been really fun.

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