NAR dues now $25 for 25 year olds

NAR has just dropped the dues rate for rocketeers aged 21-25 to $25 a year. This is for full membership benefits (insurance, magazine, etc.) that previously were $62. The age range for this rate was 16-20, but it was expanded at the last NAR board meeting to be age 16-25. This is not a limited time discount, but a new rate structure to attract and accommodate the growing number of post TARC and college rocketeers.

The new enrollment form will look like this

SR (Age 26 and older) Join – 1 Year ($62) – Regular Magazine
SR (Age 21-25) Join – 1 Year ($25) – Regular Magazine

Tell your student friends the price is right to join NAR.

http://www.nar.org/join-nar

We are go for launch!

Weather looking pretty good. Winds might be a bit of a challenge at times. We plan to have the range open at 10AM. See you tomorrow!

Daniel

Rocket City Blastoff 2014

Announcement for the 2014 Rocket City Blastoff

HARA Meeting Thursday Night @ 7:30PM

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NARAM 56 attracts visitors from across the Galaxy

One of the best NARAM in recent years was well attended with many rockets (and no raccoons) launched from ‘A to O’ in motor size. The weekend sport launch included the student and intern flights mentioned in the post below while the rest of the week was competition and evening presentations. For the fifty-sixth year rocketeers convened to renew acquaintances, hear industry announcements, learn new skills and fly more rockets. Read more

HSV’s Falcon Rocketeers launch experiments on ULA intern rockets

(Original Story from AL.com)

Huntsville area middle and high school students had the chance to send their experiments out of this world in the 2014 Intern Rocket Program Launch sponsored by United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace.

Falcon Rocketeers, comprised of students from Butler, Grissom, Pope John Paul II high schools and Hampton Cove Middle, built two payloads that were shot into space last week in Pueblo, Colo.

ULA blasted off three intern rockets that launched 17 payloads. Alabama cotton along with teddy bears, barometers, accelerometers and a GPS device was shot into space, according to the ULA website.

The team solely represented Alabama in a field of 13 teams from around the country, including Colorado and Ohio.


Video Courtesy of ULA.

Chris’s Rocket Supplies To Be At Launch Saturday

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Chris has confirmed that he is going to come up to the August 9th launch. You can write Chris at tbonerocketeer@mchsi.com or checkout his website (click here).

 

Incredible time lapse of the crescent Moon setting behind the Saturn V

Setting crescent moon and the Saturn V rocket at the Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL, 29 July 2014. Taken with a Canon 6D, Canon 200 mm f/2.8 with 2x extender, 1 sec exposures every 3 sec. The rocket is 7 miles away.

Crescent Moon and Saturn V Time Lapse from Roy Spencer on Vimeo.

Credit: Dr. Roy Spencer, Huntsville, AL

HARA Meeting August 7th at 7:30PM

2014 Meeting #8 Flyer

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HARA Helps Future Space Pioneers Take Flight at UCP Summer Camp

On June 20th, the day before Southern Thunder, an excellent group of HARA members and volunteers showed up to help these kiddos at United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) Huntsville’s summer space camp launch their paper stop rockets and their imaginations. These kiddos and their family’s cope with a variety of challenges daily, and none can be easy, but these kiddos have amazing attitudes.  We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to share rocketry with them.

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