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.

The first part of the plan succeeded several minutes after launch when the ... on the business plans of Estes, a small, closely held private firm that makes small rocket engines and rocket systems.

SpaceX lost contact with the Starship rocket minutes into its test flight on Thursday as it came tumbling down and broke ...

It comes to us from our friend [Leo Fernekes], who documents a form of amateur rocketry that makes the Estes rockets of our ... eventually rising off the launch pad and screwing itself into ...

On Episode 151 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with former NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green about how we ...

Finally, did you know you can launch your own SpaceX rocket? Model rocket maker Estes' stunning scale model of a Falcon 9 ...

On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the latest space news, including a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans to launch and land in the Bahamas, and the ...