At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, some of the projectiles flew as high as 4,500 feet, carrying onboard cameras, GPS ...

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your build, and then seeing how it measures up in the real world. To aid in that ...

When you’re building and launching a variety of advanced model rockets like [Joe Barnard], you don’t want to spend time building (and debugging) specialized flight computers for every rocket ...

Craig Sanders remembers when there were model-rocket clubs all over the Bay Area. As it stands, the Livermore Unit of the National Association of Rocketry is the only major local rocket club left. But ...

Launching a model rocket used to be much easier than this. The older hobbyists gathered for a launch at Moffett Field near Mountain View on a recent Saturday morning recall a time when rockets filled ...

The National Association of Rocketry hosted on event Saturday where rocket aficionados could send their high-powered model ...

TITUSVILLE — It was supposed to target terrorism, not toy rockets. But enthusiasts who build and launch model rockets say a provision in the Homeland Security Act threatens to ground a hobby that for ...

From high-powered rockets to quirky designs, OregonRocketry launches are a celebration of curiosity, teamwork and a bit of playful chaos. Rockets conjure up images of moon landings, space stations, ...

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Kids stage a dry run for Tuesday’s rocket launch in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: Charles Bergquist Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. But before astronauts could take ...