Today in class, Sophie and I drafted our design for what we want our rocket body to look like. We ended up changing some of the measurements that we previously had thought of during the design process. One of the things we changed was the radius. Instead of having a 5 centimeter radius, it's going to be about 2.54 centimeters. When we originally calculated the radius, we mistook it with diameter instead, so it would have been much larger than we were thinking of. Now our diameter will be closer to 1 inch instead of 3 inches. For the body part of the rocket, we're going to make it 30 centimeters, which is close to the size of one foot. Sophie and I wanted to make the body tapered, like our original mini balsa rocket, but because we have a very limited time amount and it would take a while to carve out the balsa and glue it all. We're just going to make it with strips of thick paper that Andrew taught us about. It will have four layers to make sure it'll be really strong during the launch. The nose cone will most likely be made out of balsa wood, since Andrew is going to try to teach us how to make it that way. We're going to make it 8 centimeters tall and it's going to to be curved to help give the illusion of a more cartoon like rocket. Then the fins will measure 11 centimeters and will be extremely similar to our fins on our first rocket. We might have to end up changing the size because the center of mass might become off balance from where it needs to be if the fins are too large or too small. As we start calculating where our center of mass is, we'll be able to figure out this part a little more clearly. We're going to try to build our rocket body on Thursday because Sophie is going to be out of town for the next two days. After that, we'll be able to start building and working on the other components of the rocket, both for the inside and outside.