On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

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.

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 ...