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Mark June 17-19, 2005 down on your calendars.  The North East Regional Rocket Festival will be the areas premier event of the year.  See the official NERRF website for more details.

SpaceShip-1 wins the X-Prize.  Congratulations to the scaled team!  10-4-04 the birth of a new space age.

Congratulations Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites for getting half way to the X-Prize and all the way into space! 

Due to a family emergency I can not attend LDRS, I hope that those of you going all have a great time.  The online album has the LDRS days all unlocked so please feel free to upload your pics of LDRS to share.

Combined CTRA - METRA launch calendar back online.  Click on Launch Calendar on the right hand navigation panel.

On-Line Album added!
Upload your favorite rocketry pictures and vote on them.  Special LDRS section ready and waiting for LDRS pictures

L3 project postponed.  Due to increased demands at work I am unable to complete my L3 project in time for LDRS.

S.S. Eclipse flies wireless video payload again.  Go to the Movie Roc page.

Completed Jeff Taylor's EX class.
If you are interested in EX stop by the LOKI site and see when he's offering it again, you will not be disappointed.

Joined Rocketry Top 50
Before you leave click on the TOP 50 link to vote for this site

Combined Launch Calendar Added!
All CTRA & METRA launches included
See link on right side of page

L3 project construction begins.
check the L3 page for updates

Salvatore Pais responds to my comments about his article in the Homeland Defense Journal.
See his email to me and my response on the HomePage.

Nor-East launch season begins
OK folks time to dust off the rockets, its flying time
Check CTRA-NARCONN and METRA sites for schedules.

Loki Research becomes a Tripoli Certified Motor manufacturer
while there are no certified motors yet, we can look forward to having more motor choices

 

 


 

People often ask me where and how do you learn all this stuff.  First and foremost you need to find a fellow rocketeer to learn from, after all its always cheaper and easier to learn from someone else's mistakes.  I also learned quite a bit from surfing the web, also an easy and cheap way to learn.  Last but not least I purchased a number of books on the subject, some good, some not.  What follows is a list of the books I've read that I felt were good and/or helpful.  Those that are available through Amazon are linked back there so you can order one right from here.

 

  The "Official Bible" of model rocketry.

 

  Great Book, from model to high power.

 

  Good read, decent information

 

  Learn how the "Big Boys" did it

 

  Best history I've read yet on how we got to the moon.

 

  What can I say, yes, our Germans were better than their Germans

 

  Goddard, a true American Pioneer.

 

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