From the get-go, Team Aerospace decided to go "big and loud using rockets, and do our industry proud."
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Team NAC's strategy was to alternate using fire and ice to set off each link.
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The "NAC" in Team NAC's name stands for Noel Action Concepts, a special-effects and prop animation company run by Mark Noel. He assembled the team, which includes his sons Jesse and Mark.
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The members of Team Aerospace work at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Wanting to showcase physics as well as rockets, Team Aerospace began their machine's chain with a "flame ladder."
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To impress Jamie and Adam, Team NAC really wanted to start off their chain by "breaking something and dropping something ... We really wanted to start with a bang."
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The "Missing Link" for this episode was an entire automobile, which caught both teams off-guard, initially.
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Said Adam Savage when he saw an early test of Team NAC's flaming Newton's Cradle, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing on fire."
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In its early test of its "fire ribbon," Team NAC realized they couldn't rely on only a single bottle of propane to carry the flame through the towers.
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Unchained Reaction judges Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Sadowsky — president of Syyn Labs, the company responsible for building the Rube Goldberg Machine featured in the music video for the OK Go song This Too Shall Pass — love their jobs.
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