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Currently scheduled for 5/7 at 7:58 eastern Just saw a potential visibility chart for it https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2021/feature/nasa-wallops-may-7-rocket-launch-exploring-energy-transport-in-space

Last year I gave a talk to at HARA about an outsider's view of competition rocketry after attending NARAM-60. I gave an overview of competion events and techniques for those that knew even less than I. Included in my talk were example starter kits for each contest in case folks wanted to try...

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Sad news in the early space community. Coincidentally, a spacewalk was being conducted at the ISS at the time of his death https://www.space.com/cosmonaut-alexei-leonov-first-spacewalker-dies-at-85.html

Marketing? sure. Kinda cool? sure https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082019a-snoopy-nasa-mcdonalds-happy-meal.html The "Discover Space with Snoopy" Happy Meal, which launched at McDonald's restaurants across the United States on Tuesday (Aug. 20) and extends through September, features...

Good job for whoever was at the Salt Flats and didn't spill the beans If you like funny/clever video banter, watch the whole thing, if you just want to see where rockets come in, go to 5:40

I've noticed large diameter Aeropack retainers are Out-of-Stock at several vendors (and no 98's last I checked). Is there a production backlog these days or is the product line coming to an end?

Since it's the days of Apollo fever, NASA has released these archived press release materials from 50 years ago. No idea if they were always available, but its the first I've seen of them so I thought I'd share. https://history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/saturnv_press_kit.html

I flew back for a wedding to my home region the Rio Grande Valley (southernmost 4 counties of Texas, no not El Paso.....) and in the airport was a nice little display of obscure national history that is relavant to my hobby. I thought I'd share for the community. The pictures tell the story but...

Live static fire of the OmegA 1st stage motor at 1:05 MDT Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems formed when NG proper acquired Orbital-ATK. It's a composite cased motor stage with new propellant formulation. Without seeing the thrust curve, I estimate it's ~900MN-s to 1GN-s of total impulse...

An odd little facebook sequential math problem has popped up gain, and today I noticed something interesting that escaped my attention before. Have at it, no name calling

Once again Bezos succeeds in upstaging Musk. Nice to know that there's some competition in the new space race keeping things varied and versatile. Apparently they've been researching and developing lander technology for 3 years. (including a few links in case filters prevent folks from seeing a...

Great article overview of response to the modern world's evolving threat landscape. (I could use a few P-GUM's myself) https://theaviationist.com/2019/04/01/revealed-israels-top-secret-f-35f-jsmf/

I was very recently asked the question "What if you had access to titanium printed parts?" To be honest, the idea of having such access any time soon hadnt crossed my mind and I have no immediate use for such a material, so I thought I'd throw it out to the makers here. What applications for...

In before Winston! Mr. Pence described a need for NASA to adopt greater urgency in returning to the moon. But an accelerated pace has not been evident in the Trump administration’s NASA budget requests to Congress, raising many questions about how it will be possible for the agency to...

Last year HARA got an unusual request from Levi's (yes, as in jeans) asking for vintage rocket stuff to use in their photoshoot for the coming season. A few club members were able to oblige and loan out some models they've kept from long ago, including our club NAR sponsor's 80's launch control...

Noodling ideas and figured why not see what folks thing? I've been wanting a lighter 54 motor rocket (lighter than my 15 lb 5.5" L2 at any rate) and also a project to try out canvas phenolic (which will come to play in my L3 if that happens). My L1 is a PAC-2, I've been planning to make a...

Friend on facebook posted this. I know there are a few folks on here who may find it interesting as well: https://www.wearethemighty.com/blue-angels-cockpit-footage

I found something in Openrocket I've never seen before. I'm sending my mammoth up on a G33 and adjusted the parachute opening to reflect the chute release I'll use (no main deploy at half a mile up please) I imagined I'd have to make a sudo-chute to simulate the airframe tumble so it didn't...

A club member posted the new Apogee newsletter, and the only thing that really caught my attention over lunch was their new Simple GPS unit. It's got a 4x AA self contained receiver with readout, a transmitter that looks like it runs on a 9v, says "2 mile range", and operates on non-HAM bands...