The exclamation came from CloudBusters Model Rocket Club president Scot Davis as his son Leith’s rocket soared almost 1,000 feet up during a test launch April 23 at James Ranch. The rocket shot ...

Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s foundation, is excited to announce a new collaboration with Estes Industries. Estes is the premier provider of model rockets kits and engines, and has been committed ...

Preparing for takeoff requires preparation far beyond the classic countdown shown on TV, according to Utah State University Rocketry Club. The club seeks to prepare students to build and prepare ...

The Cloudbusters Model Rocket Club will try to avenge last year’s early exit from the American Rocketry Challenge this weekend. Last year, the team made up of students from Durango and Animas high ...

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 ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Big, puffy clouds caused the sun to play ...

Skies were patchy with clouds and rain Saturday over a grassy field at Little Big Econ State Forest where two launch pads were ready to fire off a fleet of model rockets. Three-year-old Nico Garces of ...

The Kentucky Derby bills itself as the fastest two minutes in sports, but elite rocket competitions such as NASA’s annual Student Launch Challenge have the horses beat in many ways. The full-size UAB ...

At long last (a year, to be precise) the monthly barrage of model rockets organized by a Vermont club is again open to the public. Spectators can join rocketeers at 10 a.m. Saturday to gawk at the ...

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 ...