A Falcon 9 first stage will fly for the second time in just nine days on Friday (March 21), if all goes according to plan.

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 ...

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 ...