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Blast off.

We went for a drive on the weekend (almost to where we go camping)  to see the Rockets take off at Queensland Rocketry Societies public launch on Sunday.

We had a lovely morning out and it was something different to do and got us all out of the sun and in the fresh air.

The group have thee public days  year.  A gold coin donation gets you a few hours of fun and if you really want to you can also purchase a rocket on the day all set up for your spot of the limelight.  Sundays event ws there biggest so far, pulling in approx 400 people.

It was great to see people of all ages taking part. 

This boy helped his Dad make his rocket out of a Giant Crayon.

And he did everything from taking it to be safety checked, he carried it out, set it up and even hit the button.

 It had some speed and I missed it taking off.  But this photo still shows how great it was. 

I must have hyped it up a little and I think that Amelia must have thought that she was going to see the real Rockets at the Kennedy Space Centre (we have also been to Parks and have been to a night sky viewing - so she knows a little about them)

Our conversation went something like this

Amelia:  Mum, why did you only take us to see little Rockets.

I explained that it is a society and ordinary people like us can become members.  That it was not the NASA space station and that in QLD we could only let them go 5000 feet into the sky as the commercial flight path is over head.

Amelia: But we have binoculars.  If we took those then they would be able to send them higher.

If you ae interested in heading down - there is one more public launch day this year, pop October 10th in your diary.  You will head out of Brisbane towards Beaudesert (here is a little mud map for you)