Astronaut: "John Glen" (looks more like Gordo)

Motor: AMW K1000 Skidmark

Goals

• Test new tower retention system.
• Test tower extraction system.
• Test a more advanced capsule recovery utilizing drogue deployment of the main parachute after the tower's chute removes the nose cap.
• Test recovery of the tower. 
• Any other needed tests based on the results from flight 2a.

Technical details

• Tower will contain a timer to trigger the deployment of its recovery system with a 1 second delay to assure the capsule is clear of the booster before recovery begins.
• The capsule nose cap will be fastened to the tower so that when it pulls away, it frees the drogue chute.
• Like last year, the tower will have live downlink video.
• Capsule is the FAO Schwartz Friendship 7 with retro pack.

Results

• Beautiful and stable launch.
• Tower didn't separate from the capsule - improvements are needed for this system.
• Larger 12' parachute worked perfectly to bring the booster down nice and slow.
• Booster camera mount broke again.