Rocket Launching

This is a project done by a student(Venkatesh) himself and i have as a teacher convinced him to part with his code. I hope we all have the open source philosophy in mind in dealing with code. So all the projects that appear here i believe are posted with the intension of being of educational value and anyone is free to download and modify the code and is encouraged to give out such code freely to the community. I have tried my best to test the code and debugged several projects with the sole intension of getting the snapshots.

The rocket launching takes place from the ground... and a suggestion for improvement that wanted to be gotten done is the camera should be linked to the rocket and the ground should go down after launch. At present the ground just vanishes and sky color changes instantly. Then stars appear and the moon(mars according to the function in the program) goes past the rocket.

Snapshot:

Here is the source. I have now succeeded in doing all the modifications i listed earlier. After launch the ground moves down, the left and right supporting structures rotate, the sky turns black from blue. Here is the source for the modified program.