Hundreds of thousands of Americans fly model rockets, but the hobby is being threatened by increased federal regulation. View Slideshow On a recent weekend, Erik Ebert traveled to Nevada's remote ...

Long before model rockets became Randy Boadway’s business, it was his hobby. Now Boadway shares that hobby with hundreds of beginners every year, both through his company, eRockets, and through the ...

Model rocketry is a hobby similar to building model airplanes. In the hobby today, there are two distinct areas of rocket activity: amateur (or experimental) rocketry, and model rocketry (including ...

DARTMOUTH — On Friday afternoon, the Zwackis — David, Tina and David's daughter, 9-year-old daughter Cali — headed to the DYAA baseball fields in their hometown of Dartmouth to try out the model ...

A local engineer took full advantage of the the Loveland Public Library’s Makerspace to take his love for rockets to the next level, building a nearly 6-foot-tall replica of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...

Rocket science is not that hard according to a growing band of enthusiasts taking up the rocket building hobby in Australia. A love of aeronautics and space has attracted more people to start building ...

Model rocketry is an amusing hobby! Model rocket launcher circuit presented here is carefully designed to avoid accidental ignition, and is capable of delivering battery power to the igniter in an ...

It is not a hobby that often receives much attention, but model rocketry in Canberra has a small and devoted following. This weekend the Canberra Rocketry Group travelled to Ardlethan in New South ...

In the near future, the days of conceptual learning will become classroom pedagogy of the past. Increasingly, teachers, students and school leaders are seeking hands-on activities, real-world ...

Dear Johnnie: 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. Fire danger was the reason given. I didn’t know that concrete ...

Last weekend, a group of serious hobbyists launched rockets as high as 45,000 feet from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. credit Courtesy of the National Association of Rocketry Hundreds of thousands of ...