Eliot Here, I'd be happy to talk about the rocket and man I really could use one of those engineering internships it's been surprisingly hard to find things to apply to.
Were you the envy of all your friends at the time?
Do you remember the original trip to scout for parts? How did the plan and execution take part from your point of view & recollection?
Was the rocket always a rocket in your imagination? What else was it if not?
How about for your siblings and friends?
Any other rocket-related anecdotes?
Do you think it influenced your choice of career? Or was that just destiny?
Where, ultimately, do you want to go with your career? Genuine rocket scientist?
I'm agog. Also more than a little envious; my own father's home-built treehouse for me and my brother was little more than a plank in a tree with a rope ladder to get up to it. But that was plenty and, in my imagination, so many other things...
Growing up the rocket basically meant I had a place to chill out and definitely would hang out with my friends in it at one point my friends and I made a movie about going to an alien world with it as a central plot.
I don't know that envy was the right word but everyone thought it was pretty cool.
I do but only that I was really interested in the rivet guns as it was a tool I'd never seen before haha.
I'm kinda weird in that I don't have a mental eye so it wasn't like in my imagination like most people would think of it but it was definitely something that I spend a lot of time thinking about as a child.
My siblings are a lot younger than me so I don't know exactly but they definitely seem to think it's cool especially my younger brother.
I remember that when we went to maker fair with the rocket I could not be less interested in it and spend as much time as I could looking at the other displays because well I had the rocket at home.
I don't think the rocket specifically influenced my carrier choice but I got to participate in lot of projects like this with my dad for all of my childhood and so that definitely is a big reason I'm in college for mechanical engineering right now.
As a mechanical engineering major I really would love to go into robotics especially like conveniency things like home automation systems.
It definitely was one of those things that was just around when I was a kid and as I started on my own projects I look back at that project as my first.
