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The Last Interview: G. Harry Stine
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- Written by Robert A. Craddock
Not long before his death, G. Harry Stine—the “Father of Model Rocketry”—candidly discussed his career, and the struggle to establish a great new hobby.
My first impression of G. Harry Stine was that he was an imposing figure. Unlike many men, he
Five Decades of Model Rocketry
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
Rocketry has been around for centuries, since the Chinese first discovered how to make black powder and began developing fireworks. In the late 16th Century, a German fireworks maker, Johann Schmidlap, took things a step further by experimenting with multi-stage rockets that
Bill Simon: Model Rocket Man
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
Combining model design with journalism skills, Bill Simon was at the center of a creative team that made Estes rockets an international phenomenon in the 1960s and ‘70s
This Was The Future
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
An epic decade was brought down to scale by model rocketry
AT THE DAWN of the 1960s I barely knew what planet I was on. I was four-years-old when Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were trying to break
Estes Designers
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- Written by Mark Mayfield
In the heyday of model rocketry in the 1960s and ‘70s, designers at Estes Industries in Penrose, Colorado were busy turning out one classic kit after another. Today many of those original kits go for hundreds of dollars at auction. Here’s a list of Estes models sold from 1961 to 1980—and their