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 ...

At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, some of the projectiles flew as high as 4,500 feet, carrying onboard cameras, GPS trackers and altimeter-activated parachutes.

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 ...

Today, model rocketry is a popular hobby, with an almost impeccable safety record. But that wasn’t always the case. From the late 19th century to the late 1950s, generations of kids were taking their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...