A good source of information for rocketry and space travel is the NASA website. NASA, the people that brought you the Space Shuttle, Moon Landings, Interplanetary Travel and a host of technologies too vast to mention keeps a website full of educational materials. One of those is RocketModeler which we have taken the opportunity to [Continue]
I must admit I don’t have much recollection of 1972. Although from old articles and movies it looks like a rather newsworthy time. In Canada, we celebrated our victory in the hockey summit series against a very unexpectedly good Soviet team. This was also the year when the Watergate scandal began in the United States [Continue]
So there you are in the store about to purchase a model rocket. You look at the clerk and ask him/her, “Where do you keep your model rocket engines?” Or maybe you ask “Where do you keep your model rocket motors?” Let’s face it, rocketry is about being exact. Building the rocket so that it [Continue]
My first model rocket was a Canaroc Challenger. It came in a complete kit with some C6-3 engines. Little did I know at the time that a rocket as small as the Challenger would soar out of view using this engine. It took about 2 hours to find the rocket. Returning home happy to have [Continue]