Joe Barnard (or BPS.Space) and Aryan Kapoor are two model rocket enthusiasts who’ve spent years working to advance the hobby with innovative ways to precisely steer model rockets and land them ...

Since then, model rocket designers have attempted to recreate the feat—with Joe Barnard’s BPS.space accomplishing the milestone in 2022 after 7 years of work.

Landing a real rocket with propulsion is an incredibly complex task that took years to perfect; only recently did it cross into the realm of actual practicality.Joe Barnard, creator of the Youtube ...

Some local kids got to put their aerospace engineering and creativity skills to the test on Saturday. Dozens took part in STEM NOLA's "Rocket Day" event outside of the Lakefront Arena. They were able ...

This is a flying rocket model built by Model Products in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa fins, balsa nosecone, and a plastic ...

The Falcon 9 model rocket represents another big step forward in Estes Industries' overall mission to ignite the imagination of people everywhere by putting the wonder of space travel in their hands.

Three siblings display their model rockets including an Estes Gemini Titan (right) and an Estes Thor Agena-B (on the ground), as well as one built from scratch (left), Phoenix, Ariz., ca. 1968.

Model rocket enthusiasts are learning how to do vertical landings. Two hobbyists show how they can pull off SpaceX’s trick at a smaller scale with custom hardware and a few years of effort.

As Allen has recalled, the limitations of toys like this one, which could only reach 100 feet in the air, led him to experiment with chemical rocket kits and more sophisticated flying rocket models.