In the past, amateur rocketry had been essentially a weekend pursuit that brought guys together for fun and fire.

Designing solid rocket motors is particularly interesting to amateur rocketry enthusiasts.

From amateur rocketry lore, I think zinc powder is pretty resistant to sparks.

The following are highlights of amateur rocketry records set at Black Rock:

To me, from science fiction to amateur rocketry to adolescent sexuality to drugs is just a broad highway."

Model rocketry by definition then became a separate and distinct activity from amateur rocketry.

Accelerometers are used to detect apogee in both professional and in amateur rocketry.

Motors and vehicles of such size and power are generally considered the domain of amateur rocketry.

The competition goes back to the mid-1980s, organized by the Paisley Rocketeers who have been active in amateur rocketry since the 1930s.

The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union lead many hobbyists into amateur rocketry.

Subsidy republication as late as 1995 by Pyrotek Inc., an amateur rocketry supply house.

Amateur Rocketry web page in Spanish language, featuring sorbitol (candy) rockets and rocket motors.

In amateur rocketry, grossly overloaded low wattage metal film resistors and 0805 Surface-mount technology resistors are also used.

It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.

Oktanyum's Experimental Amateur Rocketry Web Site.

To promote amateur rocketry the U.S. Army began a series titled "Build a Safe Model Missile."

Friends of Amateur Rocketry, better known simply as FAR, is a not-for-profit organization providing infrastructure for testing and launching large amateur and experimental rockets.

They also won a National Science Fair gold medal for their rockets, for their project titled "A Study of Amateur Rocketry Techniques".

One of the first organizations set up in the US to engage in amateur rocketry was the Pacific Rocket Society established in California in the early 1950s.

Amateur rocketry was an especially popular hobby in the late 1950s and early 1960s following the launch of Sputnik, as described in Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys.

The importance of this work saw Hohmann become a leading figure in Germany's amateur rocketry movement in the late 1920s, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society").

His concepts were first taken seriously only by the amateur rocketry movement in Germany, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society"), centered on Hermann Oberth and his co-workers.

Rocket candy is also occasionally known as "caramel candy", a term that was popularized by Bertrand R. Brinley, in his pioneering book on amateur rocketry, Rocket Manual for Amateurs, published in 1960.

Amateur rocketry sometimes known as amateur experimental rocketry or experimental rocketry is a hobby in which participants experiment with fuels and make their own rocket motors, launching a wide variety of types and sizes of rockets.

The story, based on Homer Hickam Jr.'s memoir Rocket Boys , follows a few backwoods kids in the 1950s who use amateur rocketry as a steppingstone to college scholarships and an escape from the coal mines where their fathers work.