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From the Ted Talk by Steve Jurvetson: Model rocketry

Unscramble the Blue Letters


By day, I'm a venture cslaiitapt. On weekends, I love rockets. I love photography, I love rockets. I'm going to talk about a hobby that can scale and show you photos I've taken over the yaers with kids like these, that hopefully will grow up to love rocketry and eventually become a Richard Branson or Diamandis. My son designed a rocket that became stable, a golf ball rkocet. I thought it was quite an irienetntsg experiment in the principles of rocket snecice. And it flies straight as an arrow.

bkanig soda and vinegar. Night shots are baietuufl, piercing the Big Dipper and the Milky Way. 2-stage rtecoks with video cameras on them, onboard computers logging their flights, rocket gliders that fly back to erath. I use RockSim to simulate ftglhis before they go to see if they'll break supersonic, then fly them with onboard crtoeupms to verify performance.

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By day, I'm a venture __________. On weekends, I love rockets. I love photography, I love rockets. I'm going to talk about a hobby that can scale and show you photos I've taken over the _____ with kids like these, that hopefully will grow up to love rocketry and eventually become a Richard Branson or Diamandis. My son designed a rocket that became stable, a golf ball ______. I thought it was quite an ___________ experiment in the principles of rocket _______. And it flies straight as an arrow.

______ soda and vinegar. Night shots are _________, piercing the Big Dipper and the Milky Way. 2-stage _______ with video cameras on them, onboard computers logging their flights, rocket gliders that fly back to _____. I use RockSim to simulate _______ before they go to see if they'll break supersonic, then fly them with onboard _________ to verify performance.

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  2. science
  3. capitalist
  4. earth
  5. beautiful
  6. years
  7. baking
  8. rocket
  9. interesting
  10. rockets
  11. computers

Original Text


By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. I love photography, I love rockets. I'm going to talk about a hobby that can scale and show you photos I've taken over the years with kids like these, that hopefully will grow up to love rocketry and eventually become a Richard Branson or Diamandis. My son designed a rocket that became stable, a golf ball rocket. I thought it was quite an interesting experiment in the principles of rocket science. And it flies straight as an arrow.

Baking soda and vinegar. Night shots are beautiful, piercing the Big Dipper and the Milky Way. 2-stage rockets with video cameras on them, onboard computers logging their flights, rocket gliders that fly back to Earth. I use RockSim to simulate flights before they go to see if they'll break supersonic, then fly them with onboard computers to verify performance.

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