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Sport Rocketry is the official journal of the National Association of Rocketry. Sport Rocketry is the longest continually published magazine devoted to the sport rocket hobby. It is published bi-monthly and features regional launch coverage, construction and technical articles, rocket plans, scale data, competition tips, and product reviews.
Amateur rocketry was an especially popular hobby in the late 1950s and early 1960s following the launch of Sputnik, as described in Homer Hickam's 1998 memoir Rocket Boys. One of the first organizations set up in the US to engage in amateur rocketry was the Pacific Rocket Society established in California in the early 1950s.
Friends of Amateur Rocketry, better known simply as FAR, is an educational 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation providing infrastructure for static test firing and launching; small, medium, and large; solid, hybrid, and liquid; commercial and experimental rockets. [1]
The record-shattering rocket launch was only about 3.8 miles short of the altitude allowed for amateur rocketry, but the students are hoping to break new records in the club’s future.
The largest vendors of high-power rocket motors in the world are Cesaroni Technology Inc. and RCS Rocket Motor Components, Inc. The very first model rocket motor certified was by Model Missiles Inc. (Orville Carslile). Circa 1958. The very first high-power rocket motor certified was by U.S. Rockets (Jerry Irvine). Circa 1985.
The annual Tripoli launch LDRS (Large Dangerous Rocket Ships) has been hosted on 5 occasions by ROC. Four of these were at Lucerne Dry Lake, CA, (20, 29, 35, and 41) and the other (22) in Jean, NV. The National Rocketry Association "National Sport Launch" has been hosted twice by ROC at Lucerne Dry Lake, CA.
SHREWSBURY — Shrewsbury High School students will head to Plains, Virginia, this month to compete in the American Rocketry Challenge. It is the world's largest rocket contest and has around ...
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