Rockets!!

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There is a a slight chance I got a bit carried away... OK, have to admit, I like rockets. I was a child of the space-age. Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo launched during my childhood. My father's company built the Apollo capsules, and the Space Shuttle. As a kid, on company Family Day got to see scorched Apollo Command Capsules, recently returned from space. Wrote to NASA (yes, hand-written letters delivered by postal mail), and got back cool posters full of rockets and planets. Got to sit in mockups of the Space Shuttle cockpit when in high school, long before the Shuttle flew. So I have a bit of a fondness. In my 3D printing misadventures, learning to use fast single-walled "spiralized" prints, found that imagined rockets suited for that form of fabrication. And cool. And good at exposing weakness in the printer. So I ended up printing a lot of rockets as tests. As a bonus, when my grandson got the notion to open a "store", what "sells" best is my old rocket/test prints. :) Rockets. Lots of rockets. Well suited for fast, single-wall "spiralized" (or "vase mode") prints. Also, if you push speed, they seem good for finding the faults in your printer.