NASA’s Exploration Flight Test 1, or EFT-1, will mark the first-ever test flight of the agency’s Orion spacecraft for deep-space exploration. The unmanned test flight, scheduled for Dec. 4, 2014, will send an unmanned Orion space capsule on a 4.5-hour spaceflight to simulate the re-entry of a mission to the moon. Read more
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.
Category: News |
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
Category: Uncategorized |
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
Category: Launches |
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.
Category: Launches |
Chris’s Rocket Supplies To Be At Launch Saturday
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).
Category: News |
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
Category: News |
