Rockets
Basic Rockets
Balloon
Rocket on a String
Experiment with force and pressure by building a balloon rocket.
Lemon
Juice Rockets
Launch a rocket by following instructions, and STAND BACK! (Uses
lemon juice and bakng soda.)
Pencil
Rockets
Rockets, using pencils for their bodies, are launched with a
rubber band-powered launch platform. From NASA.
Rockets
Away
This activity will demonstrate some of the basic principles behind
rocketry. You'll build a simple "rocket" with ordinary
household materials.
Water
Rocket Index
If you can use a bicycle pump, use a knife without cutting yourself
and use a browser, you should be able to launch a water rocket.
Major Rockets
NASA
Kids' Club
All about rockets from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Lots of games and interactive sections of the site now.
Wickman Spacecraft
& Propulsion Company
These folks make major rockets and also hold a kids rocket camp.
John Wickman also teaches a college course, outlined here, and
the students get to launch their rockets from the company launch
site in Casper Wyoming.
Model Rockets
Beginner's
Guide to Model Rockets
Here you can study how model model rockets operate at your own
pace and to your own level of interest.
Dr. Rocket's
You have found one of the most dangerous websites in West Texas!
This site contains lots of plans for model rockets.
Hitchhiker's
Guide to Model Rocketry
Model rocketry can introduce you to the joys of this exciting
topic from your own home. In this guide, we explain everything
from getting your first rocket, to designing your own. We even
have a cool simulator written in Java.
John
Coker's Rocketry Pages
There is a large amount of rocketry-related content here. Mostly
John's own exploits, but also research he's done and many tips
and discoveries he's made while building and flying rockets.
Model Rocket
Safety Code
Obey these rules for safe model rocket launches. From the National Association of
Rocketry.
Parts
of a Model Rocket
Flying model rockets is a relatively safe and inexpensive way
for students to learn the basics of forces and the response of
a vehicle to external forces.
Rocket
Science (for the rest of us)
Hobbiest site for Vidroc (Video rocket). The concept
is actually quite simple -- develop a "low cost" remote
video system and stick it in the nose cone of a model rocket. This
hobby group also has an emaillist: vidroc.
Rocket
Equations
Equations for model rocketeers - how to accurately predict
speed and altitude for your rocket from weight, diameter, motor
thrust and impulse.
Scale
Models: Spacecraft, Rockets, Missiles, and X-Planes
All you space modelers out there (and you know who you are),
let's get together and make this a useful, informative and (most
of all) fun web site.
Field Trips
& Events
Space Camp
So you might want to become an astronaut. Space camp will let
you try the actual training apparatus that astronauts-in-training
use.
Rocket
Scientists
Homer Hickam Online
Homer Hickam is the author of many books including October
Sky, The Coalwood Way, and Sky of Stone, his
series of memoirs about his boyhood adventures growing up in
the mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia.
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Telescopes
Take Off with
Rocket Supplies
from Amazon.com
October
Sky (1999) -- Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper
 
October
Sky, a Memoir
Homer Hickam
Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old
Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were
his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that
everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the
mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family
rarely saw him.
Handbook of Model Rocketry
by G. Harry Stine
A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and
the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry
G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and
one of its most accomplished and respected figures.
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