[KoD] and [Navic] are building solid propellant motors using sugar and potassium nitrate. They cook up the two ingredients along with water and a bonding agent. They find that corn syrup is ...

At an event in Nevada, hobbyists can legally send their homemade rockets high into the atmosphere. Grant Thompson, who has a YouTube DIY science channel, struggles under the weight of a rocket at ...

Why it matters: Live Science reports that a team of undergraduate students just revolutionized amateur rocketry by launching their homemade rocket higher and faster than any non-professional ...

This video of homemade rockets in Thailand is one of those things. It comes to us from our friend [Leo Fernekes], who documents a form of amateur rocketry that makes the Estes rockets of our youth ...

Famous families having fun with these experiments at home. • The bottle rocket challenge: faces from across the BBC compete to build and launch bottle rockets. Whose will fly highest?

Retired NASA engineer Hickam became a minor mass market celebrity in 1994 after a last-minute 2,000-word filler for Air & Space magazine (he spent three hours writing about launching homemade ...

Teams of local residents pour heart and soul into the construction of handmade rockets called ryusei that feature in the Yoshida Ryusei matsuri. The rockets carry local hopes and prayers high in ...