The exclamation came from CloudBusters Model Rocket Club president Scot Davis as his son Leith’s rocket soared almost 1,000 feet up during a test launch April 23 at James Ranch. The rocket shot ...

The Cloudbusters Model Rocket Club will try to avenge last year’s early exit from the American Rocketry Challenge this weekend. Last year, the team made up of students from Durango and Animas high ...

Big, puffy clouds caused the sun to play peek-a-boo as a gentle breeze ruffled the grass in a huge field full of dandelions and red clover. I watched as hobbyists threaded their rockets onto guide ...

Long before model rockets became Randy Boadway’s business, it was his hobby. Now Boadway shares that hobby with hundreds of beginners every year, both through his company, eRockets, and through the ...

Skies were patchy with clouds and rain Saturday over a grassy field at Little Big Econ State Forest where two launch pads were ready to fire off a fleet of model rockets. Three-year-old Nico Garces of ...

For Antonio Bartling, there are few more satisfying ways to spend a Saturday morning than launching rockets. “It’s amazing to see a rocket fly, especially if it’s a rocket you built,” said Bartling, ...

In the world of high powered model rocketry, itâÄôs easy to burn $100 in just two and a half seconds. ThatâÄôs about how much David Kittell, an aerospace engineering junior, spent on fuel for the ...

At long last (a year, to be precise) the monthly barrage of model rockets organized by a Vermont club is again open to the public. Spectators can join rocketeers at 10 a.m. Saturday to gawk at the ...

Last October, the Rhode Island Model Rocketry Association (RIMRA) partnered with the VA to offer a rocket-building workshop at the Providence VA Medical Center for veterans and their families. In ...