Some water rocketeers make two-bottle rockets, build self-deploying parachutes, or construct elaborate multi-stage water-rockets, but we’re keeping it simple: just a plastic bottle, a nose cone ...

It’s an automatic parachute deployment system that you build into the nose-cone of your rocket. The main portion ... left after cutting along this line make up the friction joint.

Pack the parachute into the rocket, on top of the rubber strip. Next, place the nose cone in the rocket. Make sure when you put the parachute, rubber strip and nose cone in that nothing seems too ...

that wasn’t the only part of the Falcon 9 rocket to make its way back to Earth in a controlled manner after the mission. For the first time, SpaceX also successfully brought the nose cone of the ...