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 ...

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

Model rockets are a heck of a lot of fun, and not a few careers in science and engineering were jump-started by the thrilling woosh and rotten-egg stench of an Estes rocket launch. Adding simple ...

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 ...