If you’ve ever built a model rocket, you’ll know there’s not a whole lot to them. Essentially it’s a cardboard tube, a plastic nosecone, some fins, and a little clip that will keep it riding the ...

Ready for high-flying backyard fun? Discover five top model rocket kits and launch sets you can snag on Amazon for under $40 ...

In this month of October — and being Channel 2's resident "Space Geek" — I love to watch the 1999 movie "October Sky" based on Homer Hickam's experiences and book called Rocket Boys: A Memoir. The ...

SpaceX’s innovative Starship system was already the biggest and most powerful the world has ever seen—and after six exciting test flights, the version that rocketed into the skies above South Texas ...

Randy Boadway checks out his supply of model rocket nose cones at his eRockets warehouse on Springfield Street in Dayton on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. Boadway is the founder of eRockets, which ships ...

Model rocketry has always taken cues from what’s happening in the world of full-scale rockets, with amateur rocketeers doing their best to incorporate the technologies and methods into their creations ...

The Washington Youth Aerospace team, from left: Nikhil Sirivara, Daniel Tadesse, Mikhail Antipin, Bao-Ky Tran, Antoine Vigneron and Anay Mediwala, pose with the rocket supplies vendor who found the ...

In the sixties and early seventies, space was all the rage with the Cold War competition to determine who would walk on the moon first, America or the USSR. As such, model rocketry was booming. Marc ...

Dear Johnnie: A few years back my son was given a ticket for launching a small Estes model rocket from a concrete pad in a Longmont park. Fire danger was the reason given. I didn’t know that concrete ...