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'Rocket City Rednecks' re-launches

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    Hit show returns to National Geographic Channel on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET

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Popular shows on TV and V rocket city rednecks are back for another season.

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We're used in the gas -- to knock -- -- house.

Instead he is a lot of gunpowder where you isn't a dynamite plunger to set up our -- why not open.

Car.

All right as ugly side -- self described rednecks start -- telling hit TV show demonstrating anything from billing giant rockets during sentencing piercing for body armor.

The blown up that and this season also many more devices to help our military the star of the show doctor Travis Taylor is here.

Doctor welcome -- to do and a house call hey thanks for having me over.

I got charge perhaps a little that you care about you care about the military and showed Yuri you showed how much you care -- Well you know a lot of studies are showing their got -- surviving really well because -- good torso armour.

But they're losing their arms and legs -- -- alarming rates and so would put her brains together and said there's India and our armor suit that they can Wear in combat.

And the reason why they don't where they -- -- can't move ran yeah this is -- how much is that -- way it's about forty pounds and where did you where it had to prove that you could move around in it I ran the Marine Corps marathon wearing the entire city.

Wow and you survive that's ahead of me -- barely surpass friendship that's what I thought you thought.

Yeah it was it it the other say it was as heavy -- -- expecting.

But.

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Yeah absolutely it's always fun if there's a big fireball that right -- Ever -- yeah.

We'll watch it there's like this fascination this I think by the show other than you guys are all entertaining characters and shows just so successful because people like when they blow up buildings in Virginia as we -- -- live here on TV.

Yeah right so what what is the fascination about it and more importantly you want to inspire young people to get into -- You what is our young people to do all of these careers about math and science -- -- Yeah absolutely and -- now that's when the big things as.

We want to show.

How to do science and engineering on the show and one making fun you know a lot of this science shows -- -- to -- falsely for whatever and so and that's one of the reasons that we both we launch rockets we we do things like bit.

Because we've got to get this next generation of kids interested in doing science engineering I still can't get through a whole episode of electric company.

It's just.

I don't know where this -- out -- -- I don't think Steve do you remember we got in trouble faceted redneck.

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And then when we -- the German rocket scientist to Huntsville Alabama which is now called the rocket city is right.

There's only a handful of those they couldn't build rockets have to -- moving parts all of north Alabama rednecks had to get together and help them build.

So it put the moon but few Germans and that north Alabama or rockets here at -- is -- true.

Yes they're a bit and I had a -- -- itself.

I love -- -- -- redneck and I hope I can and people love your show it was national NGOs highest rated new series of 2011 and now it's back.

After Travis Taylor -- great to see you -- -- -- the military takes -- step -- they did it be great constituents aren't.