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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your build, and then seeing how it measures up in the real world. To aid in that ...

[Daniel L]’s friend has a passion for Warhammer 40K. [Daniel] himself has a similar zeal for perfection in details. When he remembered a long-forgotten request to build a working rocket launcher for ...

For me, the Space Age began on the weed-choked field behind North School in Glencoe, Ill., in 1976. That’s where Mr. Irmis, who drove a VW microbus and taught us science, math and sex ed, convened the ...

TITUSVILLE — It was supposed to target terrorism, not toy rockets. But enthusiasts who build and launch model rockets say a provision in the Homeland Security Act threatens to ground a hobby that for ...

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 ...