Sriracha to the Moon
This is a whimsical rocket that I decided to whip up one day. The body is an empty Sriracha hot sauce bottle, the fins are constructed of very thin plexiglass and the red color inside the bottle is wadded up tissue paper. Internally there is a cardboard tube with a pretty small parachute and shock cord attached to the green cap, which just happens to make a good nosecone.
After a single wrap of masking tape at the top of the engine, it's simply shoved into the tube at the bottom of the rocket. It performed very well the first few times it was launched, but the bottoms of two of the fins were broken at one point and repaired with glue.
Below is a video of a launch made after the repairs. The rocket veered suddenly as the glue came undone right after takeoff. I really enjoy this rocket, so I will be completely rebuilding the fins in the near future.
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