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I'm Greg Liza gang and I'm here at

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Lutheran dry lake for the National

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Association of rocketry 's national

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I've been flying Rockets ever since I

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was a little guy I can still see the sky

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and telescope magazine with the little

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ad in it that said fly room rockets and

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I got really excited about it and saved

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up my pennies and got my first rocket

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and the the first rocket I ever flew

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actually was a WAC corporal it was a

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think it's really important that kids

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learn how to be involved hands-on in a

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technological activity like this the

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idea that you can build and design and

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fly something like this with your own

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hands in your own mind is really

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empowering and and I would not

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underestimate the influence that it's

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had on me throughout my career I have

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been a member of the technical staff at

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JPL for the last 31 years and I'm also a

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physics professor at Harvey Mudd College

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in Claremont California so what I did

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was I built a full-scale replica of the

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WAC corporal which around JPL is pretty

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famous because it's the rocket that

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Frank Molina launched to basically be

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the first scientific payload in space

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and 170 kilometers and went into the

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technical definition of space and was

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launched in 1946 so as a little homage

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to JPL and to Frank Molina my son and I

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cooked up this slightly crazy project

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and decided we wanted to fly a

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full-scale black corporal so here it is

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and so our fingers are crossed and let's

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see if we can get this guy up in the air

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we just have a little bit of work left

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to do here in terms of arming the flight

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computers the electronics chicken

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everything one last time saying a little

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prayer and then

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hoping that the windows are too high and

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off it goes it's not going to go to 70

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kilometers today this has an M motor in

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it which should propel it about 4,500

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feet and will come down in two pieces

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under two parachutes all right

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wheeler out there on the far end of the

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range great good thing with this

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Aerotech M 1939 black car pole going in

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ten nine eight seven six five four three

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rocket so everyone please stay on your

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feet keep your eyes on it

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arcing over we have an event we have one

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shoot we have a second shoot thank you