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Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well.   |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Preston Lerner |
Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009
Davin Coburn |
Backyard Geniuses: 10 Incredibly Cool DIY Projects Robots, rafts, and cars have been fashioned by amateur engineers |
IndustryWeek
May 18, 2011 |
The Saturn V Rocket and Supply Chain Innovation The creation of the Saturn V Rocket - the greatest machine ever built - required not just technical prowess but radical supply chain innovation. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2005
Tom Clynes |
Playing With Fire When they burn space shuttle fuel, hit speeds of mach 2 and climb to 15,000 ft., do you still call them model rockets? Welcome to the world of extreme hobbies. |
Popular Mechanics
January 29, 2010
David Noland |
Rebel Engineers Sit With NASA to Chart Future of Manned Space President Obama will officially reveal his budget, and his plans for NASA, on Monday, Feb. 1. NASA officials deferred answers to questions until after the budget is released. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage. |
Popular Mechanics
January 6, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Private Space on Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply NASA contracts to private space companies represents a shift away from government-run space hardware toward rockets and spaceships designed and operated by the private sector. |
Outside
October 2003
Bryant Urstadt |
Master Blaster It's every boy's dream: launching a do-it-yourself rocket that could not only put an eye out but could drill a hole through King Kong's forehead -- and still make it to outer space. Meet Ky Michaelson, the sultan of thrust. |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Hopes Stirring at NASA for Ares Engineering Vindication: Exclusive NASA engineers at Marshall Flight are cautiously optimistic that the fears about the under-construction Ares I rocket's propensity to shake violently have been overstated. |
Popular Mechanics
October 27, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Critics and Proponents Wait Out NASA's Ares 1-X Rocket Delay Severe winds and bad weather delayed NASA's first Ares 1-X rocket test today. The launch, which will culminate in a 6-minute flight to test the new hardware, will pick up again tomorrow at 8 am. |
National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2008
Thomas D. Jones |
5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Kieron Murphy |
A Rocket Scientist Recalls the First U.S. Spaceflight A pioneer of the U.S. space program looks back at its first success 50 years ago |
Popular Mechanics
January 31, 2008
Erik Sofge |
The Inside Story of When Jet Packs Really Are Coming News of a cheaper, lighter rocket belt gets the sci-fi geek in all of us excited. But serious technical issues, delays and lawsuits stand between jet-propelled hype and practical liftoff. |
National Defense
August 2010
Jim Okerblom |
Rocketeers Learn On the Fly Contestants in the Team America Rocket Challenge were asked to accomplish an almost impossible task. |
IndustryWeek
June 22, 2011 |
Heavy Lifting 'Facts' don't add up in a recent article about the Saturn V Rocket. |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
Booster Sought To Launch and Launch Some More When rocket boosters propel a vehicle into space, it usually is a one-time deal. Parts of a launch system burn up, fall into the ocean or remain in an orbital graveyard never to be used again. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2006
Jeff Wise |
Crash Test The Vertical Dragster, built by Armadillo Aerospace for the X Prize Cup, will lift off with 3000 pounds of thrust. In the pursuit of private spaceflight, a group of texas rocket enthusiasts aren't afraid to blow up a few engines. |
Popular Mechanics
December 12, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will be built by Boeing, but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back |
Wired
December 2001
Richard Martin |
From Russia, With 1 Million Pounds of Thrust Why the workhorse RD-180 may be the future of US rocketry... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Elon Musk |
Risky Business Why Mars is more important than cosmetics and why a failed launch is also a partial success |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Erik Sofge |
Jet Packs Finally On Sale: How to Buy Your Rocket Belt The good news: Not one, but two companies are selling jet packs. The bad news: The tech has a long way to go. |
Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust. |
U.S. CPSC
September 28, 2007 |
Risk of Impact Injury Prompts Recall of Estes-Cox Model Rockets The model rocket's side or engine retainer ring can separate and cause the rocket to fall without the nose cone separating and the parachute deploying, posing a risk of an impact injury to nearby consumers. |
U.S. CPSC
September 9, 2004 |
Hasbro Inc. Recall of Monster Rockets The cap on the water tank can unexpectedly and forcibly project off when it is quickly unscrewed from the tank, posing a risk of impact injuries to users or bystanders. In addition, the rocket's tail can strike a user or bystander on descent, if the rocket is not fully launched, posing a risk of injury. |
National Defense
June 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Low-Cost Space Launch Vehicles Await Liftoff A new generation of small rockets may fulfill the Air Force's goal of creating a market for low-cost space launches. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Marriage of Convenience Lockheed Martin and Boeing to join forces on U.S. government rocket contracts. |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Preston Lerner |
Rocketeers Pack Tech Muscle Into Model A look at Gene Nowaczyk's Piperr-8, a rocketing laboratory performing experiments at altitudes greater than 100,000 feet. |
U.S. CPSC
June 21, 2006 |
BJ Alan Co. Recalls "Thunderstick Rocket" Fireworks for Explosion Hazard Because they are overloaded with flash powder, these fireworks could explode with a greater force than expected and cause burns and bodily harm to nearby consumers. |
Wired
July 20, 2009
John Brandon |
Torture Chamber: NASA Tests Next-Gen Craft for Space Blast For the past two decades, rocket scientists have been trucking prototypes to NASA's Space Power Facility for test flights. But to accommodate the agency's latest vehicle, Orion, the facility is going to require some remodeling. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of space. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway. |
National Defense
June 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Industry, Space Agencies Seek Ways To Lower Launch Costs In an age of austere federal budgets, the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office are looking to reduce the spiraling cost of placing their heaviest satellites into space. |
