Estes Industries founders Vern and Gleda Estes sporting LAUNCH Magazine hats at NARAM-48 in Phoenix.

Apollo 8's Bill Anders and Dot Cunningham, wife of Apollo 7's Walt Cunningham, surrounded by rocketeers at the 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 7's flight. They include Bruce McLawhorn, Stuart Powley, Bill Gee, John Dyer, James Gartrell and Mark Mayfield.

LAUNCH's Deb Martin and Mark Mayfield at LDRS-26 in Nevada.

Rocketeer Steve Kristal goes over the details of his Apollo pad test model to Apollo 8's Walt Cunningham at NARAM-50.

Steve Kristal and daughter Emma at NARAM-50.

Deb Martin and Mark Mayfield of LAUNCH Magazine looking in four different directions at LDRS 26 at Jean Dry Lake bed in Nevada.

Mark Mayfield with Centuri Engineering founder Lee Piester, who is signing the Little Joe II model featured on the cover of LAUNCH's first issue in 2006.

Dot and Walt Cunningham with some of the 30-plus Semroc Saturn 1B models built for Apollo 7's 40th anniversary luncheon in Dallas.

LAUNCH's Deb Martin at the NARAM-48 awards banquet in 2006.

Semroc's Carl McLawhorn, at right, shows Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin a story in LAUNCH at the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) in Virginia. In the middle is Stephanie Mayfield, daughter of LAUNCH co-founder Mark Mayfield.

Betty Piester, Vern and Gleda Estes and Mark Mayfield at NARAM-48.

Mark Mayfield, Deb Martin and Rocketplane's George French III at the X PRIZE Cup exhibition in Alamogordo, N.M.

Walt and Dot Cunningham greet a young rocketeer at the LAUNCH Magazine table at NARAM-50.

Mark Mayfield and Walt Cunningham share a laugh at NARAM-50.

Red River Rocketry's John Dyer along with LAUNCH's Deb Martin and Mark Mayfield at the 50th anniversary commemorative Estes Scout launch at NARAM-50.

Semroc's Carl McLawhorn with some of the 30-plus Saturn 1B models built for Apollo 7's 40th anniversary luncheon. The Apollo 7 command module is behind him.

Rocketeers Stuart Powley, Bill Gee, John Dyer and Bruce McLawhorn with Buzz Aldrin at the 40th anniversary luncheon for Apollo 7 in Dallas.

Deb Martin and Mark Mayfield with Walt and Dot Cunningham at the Rocketeer's Reunion at NARAM-50.

LAUNCH's Mario Perdue prepping his upscale Mercury Redstone at NARAM-49 while Aerotech's Gary Rosenfield makes a phone call.

Mario Perdue with his xx-scale Mercury Redstone at NARAM-49.

NASA's Vince Huegele and LAUNCH Magazine's Mark Mayfield with their scale models at NARAM-50.

ATK's Matt Steele visits the LAUNCH offices in Manhattan.

Neil Armstrong and Mark Mayfield at the 40th anniversary luncheon for Apollo 7 in Dallas.

With Apollo 16's Charle Duke at the opening of the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Alabama.

Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter and LAUNCH's Mark Mayfield at Carpenter's outside home in Vail, Colorado.

Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham with rocketeers John Dyer and Bob Sanford.

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Alan Bean (back to camera) at the 40th anniversary luncheon for Apollo 7 in Dallas.

The original cover shot for LAUNCH's first issue, taken inside the Empire State Building in New York.

The iconic LAUNCH Magazine hat.