Show Notes
Jim sits down with Ryan Callahan, the engineer behind KegRocket, to talk about how a side project turned into one of the most fun and approachable takes on amateur rocketry. Ryan walks through his journey from flying Estes rockets as a kid to building liquid rockets in college, working at Blue Origin, and eventually deciding to build a real liquid fueled rocket out of beer kegs in his spare time. They get into why hands-on experience beats perfect resumes, how tight budgets and weird constrai...
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