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 ...

Occasional GeekDad contributor Francesco Fondi (perhaps the only Italian hobby enthusiast in Japan) has sent along part of a piece he just wrote up on his own blog, about some cool old model rocket ...

Launching a model rocket used to be much easier than this. The older hobbyists gathered for a launch at Moffett Field near Mountain View on a recent Saturday morning recall a time when rockets filled ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Amateur rocketry is getting a closer look from federal regulators as technological advances boost the most sophisticated amateur rockets higher into the air ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...