On Friday April17th, Vince Hugele, Duane Mayer, Daniel Cavender and Woody Bevill set up an information booth at the Weatherly Heights Elementary School for their spring STEM event. We had originally planned to launch several A/B powered low power rockets to kick off the event, but Mother Nature had other higher priority plans that forced the launch to get scrubbed. Read more
HARA makes waves at Seven Seas
NASA Hosts Student Rocket Fair, Helps Students Launch High-Power Rockets
More than 30 high school, college and university teams will launch student-built rockets during the 15th annual NASA Student Launch event April 10-11 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
IT’S NOT JUST A HOBBY…
Chris’ Rocket Supplies at Launch Saturday
Chris’ Rocket Supplies will be at the Manchester launch site this weekend. Contact Chris at http://www.csrocketry.com/store/
HARA busy with TARC
HARA has been busy testing and qualifying flights with the local TARC teams. For current details, photos and drama go to Bill Cooke’s rocket blog at http://billsrockets.blogspot.com/.
Schools registered in TARC are:
Pope John Paul II High School
Falcon Rocketeers
Bob Jones High School
Liberty Middle School Team
Tanner High School
Butler AFJROTC
Huntsville Middle
Buckhorn Middle
Russellville HS
International Drone Day Event – AIAA
We would like to make you aware of an aviation event happening in Huntsville on Saturday, March 14. Please see the flyer for
International Drone Day. All are welcome to come, connect, and learn about the exciting possibilities that unmanned systems can offer. This… is also Pi Day (3/14/15) and Einstein’s Birthday!
The Greater Huntsville Section will be manning a display & recruiting table during the event.
NARCON Dedicates Model Rocketry Exhibit at Museum of Flight
The new exhibit of model rocketry at the Museum of Flight in Seattle featuring the Estes and Stine collection was dedicated in the Space Gallery February 21, 2015, by the NAR Board of Trustees. The ‘Remove Before Flight’ ribbon was cut by NAR President Ted Cochran and Dan Hagedorn, Senior Curator and Director of Collections. Also present in the photo are Trip Barber, Bill Stine, Vern Estes and Pat Fitzpatrick. Read more
HARA Meeting Thursday – March 12th
Last weeks meeting was cancelled because of the dangerous winter weather. We will make up our regular HARA meeting this Thursday night – March 12th. Meeting will start at 7:30pm in the ERC classroom. This will be our last meeting before the NASA student launch week, so those interested in helping with range ops that week, please make an effort to attend.
Thanks,
Daniel
And thanks to those who have already renewed their memberships for 2015. Duane (Treasurer) will be issuing new membership cards for 2015.





