BYU ROCKET FUEL IGNITION.

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BYU student brewing rocket fuel in dorm kitchen causes massive ‘fireball’ explosion

A Brigham Young University student was making rocket fuel on a dormitory stove when the concoction exploded into a massive “fireball,” according to campus police.

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NASA's world famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California can trace its' history back to the 1930's when a group of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) students blew up part of a building while testing some homebrewed rocket fuel. They were thrown off campus with their tests and became known as the Suicide Club. With the help of one of the fathers of aeronautics, JPL, Aerojet Corporation, and Caltech, Theodore Von Karmen, they got back on campus, even if the rocket fuel explosions continued. Years later, the group was "adopted" by the US Army for their Redstone program. This subsequently moved to Alabama and NASA took over the JPL.

 

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in the late 70's a group of techs were preparing for a solid rocket fuel booster test at Arnold Engineering Development Center at Arnold Air Force Base in Tullahoma , TN when the solid rocket fuel they we cutting with piano wire ignited. killing all.