• Question: What is your passion to make your rockets

    Asked by powderfinger to Charlie on 11 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 11 Mar 2011:

      Hi thanks for your question powderfinger! I guess i got into rockets from sci-fi. I remember as a small child watching the original star wars movies on vhs, which my dad had recorded off itv. There were some really old adverts in the ad breaks! I used to watch star trek on tv aswell, and some sci fi.
      From there my interest grew into a fascination with travelling to the stars, and when i realised that warp drive was really not going to work, i started studying aerospace engineering, and then doing research on a type of ion thrusters called colloid thrusters.. This is hard work but fascinating.
      I hope that answers your question.

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