A great way to build excitement levels for all things space-related is with a model rocket set. Many people who have flown into space or worked for space agencies began with model rockets.

Read more below Best Model Rocket This model rocket is a 1:200 scale of the Saturn V rocket and can be launched up to 200 feet. It comes with a pre-packed parachute too.

When you’re building and launching a variety of advanced model rockets like [Joe Barnard], you don’t want to spend time building (and debugging) specialized flight computers for every rocket ...

Hackers [Navic] and [K.o.D] have fitted an Arduino Pro Mini and an array of components into an off the shelf rocketry kit to create a guided model rocket, taking the whole idea of Arduino-based ...

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.