The April 29th Saturn Skylab 50th Anniversary Commemoration Sport Launch event was well attended, There was a total of 15 flyers, 11 Senior and 4 Junior rocketeers. There were an equal number of spectators as well. A total of 68 launches were accomplished in the four hours the range was open. The top flyers in the Senior Class were Doug Probst with 11 and Chris Lagemann with 10. In the Junior Class, the top flyers were Nemo Hanson with 6 and Gideon Hanson with 5.
This was a Mercury/Gemini/Apollo Era themed launch. It was only appropriate that a beautiful half-moon resided over Buder Park. Peter Seddon captured some amazing photos of the rockets flying past the moon. Nice job Peter.
A huge thank-you goes out to Dave Pape for hauling the SLRA Launch Equipment to the field and serving as event Launch Control Officer with his trusty assistants Gideon and Nemo Hanson. Chris Lagemann assisted as well.
It’s also worthy of noting that Dave Pape, Doug Probst, Chris Lagemann, Larry Hileman, Dan Crank, and Don Hanson participated in an all-day rocket launching event, attended by roughly 50 Boy Scouts, at Beaumont Scout Reservation. They went straight from the Scouting Event to Buder Park with Launch Equipment in-tow. It was a full day of rocket activity for the six of them. This may have been the first time that pizza was delivered to the Buder Park Launch Field to feed the six famished rocketeers.
Other SLRA members in attendance for the Saturn/Skylab 50th Anniversary Launch Event included Doug & Dakota Drake, Dave Kovar, Glen Arens, Mario Santos, Ian Hanson, Nemo Hanson, Gideon Hanson, John Sullivan, Dennis Thompson, and Mike Walsh.
A huge shout-out goes out to Peter Seddon for providing all but one of the photos shown below. The moon fly-by photos are spectacular. A shout-out also goes out to Dennis Thompson for providing the Saturn/Skylab launch photo.
Happy Rocketeering Everyone!!!!
SLRA Secretary Dave Kovar.
