My cousin Vinnie the P. spent July binge watching all of the
specials on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing program.
He noticed that dogs, monkeys, humans and even single cell organisms have flown
in space but no chipmunks. He applied for a grant to the National Chipmunk
Science Foundation on a whim and prayer. He was utterly surprised to get a call
telling him a grant for a million sunflower seeds had been approved to send a
chipmunk into space.
Vinnie was ecstatic about the news until he realized he
didn’t know anything about rocket science. My cousin is not one to back down
from a challenge. He bought a bunch of old NASA Saturn rocket technical manuals
he found on Ebay and got to work. He scaled it down to chipmunk size (it saved
a lot of money on fuel costs).
Recently, we discovered some spies trying to steal Vinnie’s
rocket plans. Mom found some discarded chicken wire fencing along the road and
built a secured facility for the Woodpile’s Moon program. Within less than a
month Vinnie had his first prototype rocket ready for a test launch. I grabbed
my camera to document the historic event.
You will notice the colorful paint scheme on the rocket.
Vinnie thought the white paint used by NASA lacked imagination.
During a pre-launch check Vinnie discovers a problem:
the rockets is leaning at an angle
Vinnie looks very worried about this problem.
Vinnie checks under rocket to see what the problem is.
Having discovered the problem he chirps out orders to
the engineering team.
Vinnie inspects the repaired rocket
The test flight went well. Vinnie skipped ahead to the
manned-flight phase using
a bigger version of his rocket. How did it go? Well, Vinnie
just tweeted this selfie
from the command module.
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