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      <text bytes="830" sha1="kuawpt17ef9mrj6eh2v1d4z4uthevrl" xml:space="preserve">Welcome to the Rocketry Data site!

What is this site about? Simply put, a large portion of the rocketry hobby is dominated by "rules of thumb" and "guidelines" that are often best described as "George Smith did this 25 years ago, it worked, so it's how we do it." Rather than just winging it, we're all better served by making decisions on data.

As W. Edwards Deming put it, "In God we trust; all others bring data."

In the early 2000s, [[Drake Damerau]] begin a [[Strength of Materials]] site, using lab equipment he had access to in order to perform real tests. That site is no longer online and we lost Drake in 2022. The content he curated has been copied here, and he is credited on those pages.

If you have data you'd like to add, please reach out - the goal is to collect relevant data from as many sources as possible.</text>
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