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Robert Pearlman
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posted 02-11-2015 02:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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First model rocket to fly in space lands on display at Seattle museum

History records that 88 rockets launched to space in 1991. That count, it would seem, is off by one.

Granted, it was a really small rocket.

The world's first model rocket to enter into space did so on April 5, 1991. Standing just 7 inches tall (18 centimeters), the one-stage rocket lifted off, not by the thrust of a black powder engine, but rather on the space shuttle Atlantis.

Now, nearly a quarter of a century later, that model rocket has landed at The Museum of Flight in Seattle just in time for NARCON 2015, the National Association of Rocketry's annual convention. On Feb. 21, the man behind the rocket and the astronaut who flew it to space will be in Seattle for the meeting and to help dedicate an exhibit on the history of model rocketry.

onesmallstep
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posted 02-11-2015 03:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice tribute to all those Estes and Centuri model rockets I built and flew as a kid! I'm sure Jim Lovell wished he had an easier rocket kit to build and fly instead of the more dangerous homebuilt ones back in the day.

Lou Chinal
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posted 02-16-2015 02:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lou Chinal   Click Here to Email Lou Chinal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You had to be one of the other kids in Great Kills.

onesmallstep
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posted 02-17-2015 09:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
No, I'm not that old to remember the American Rocket (formerly Interplanetary) Society launches from Great Kills Park on Staten Island in the 1930s LOL (but that subject can easily take up a whole other thread).

Actually, I fired off my rockets at a summer camp and at local parks while growing up near Philly in the 70s. Great times to get that thick Estes catalog and build the Honest John and Little Joe II.

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