As you get started in Hobby Rocketry, It's important to be mindful of the chemicals you use in constructing & Painting your rockets. We explore this area of the hobby in this episode with Daniel the Rocket N00b, and his …
In this episode, The Rocet n00b teams up with his colleagues from The Rocketry Show to interview Tom Fetter about why our rockets turn into the wind? Tom has done a ton of research on the topic, and was excited …
You’ve found Episode 15 of the Model Rocket Show! This time around, are talking to Neil Weinstock from the Open Rocket project about this useful software tool. Neil Weinstock is one of the developers working on open Rocket,...
John Boren returns to update us on his world, and on his world at Estes, now under new management! It was an enjoyable discussion, and we hope you enjoy it!
James Duffy, left, and Mike Nowak, right, at the opening ceremonies of the European Space Modeling Competition in Ukraine, 2015 Here's an episode we recorded a while back, and since it's been a hot topic recently due to virtual NARCON,
We're baaack! Daniel The Rocket n00b gives the update what's going on in his world. and the state of the program. Then Gheem and Jesse join forces to do a deep dive on The Model Rocket Safety Code. This is …
Model Rocket Guy Jesse U (left) with our guest, Frank Burke In this episode, Model Rocket Guy Jesse U of The Rocketry Show sits in for the N00b. Jesse talks with Frank Burke, maker of a number of amazing, large, …
Our guest this week is our esteemed sponsor - Randy Boadway, owner of eRockets.biz and producer of Semroc kits and parts. We have a great conversation, lots of fun, and Randy even tells me what the "best wood glue in …
Our guest, Chris Michielssen's fantastic blog I found Chris Michielssen's blog, Model Rocket Building (which you can visit by CLICKING HERE) shortly after I got started in this hobby back in 2014, and in it I found a wealth of …
2020 was a tough year. Rocketry really helped some of us get through it. I took a recorder along to almost every launch I went to, and the result is this 2-part series, Field Notes 2020. Because of the uncertainty,
The N00b has hours of audio to edit. - I took my recorder along to document (almost) every single launch I went to this year. There weren't as many formal launches as we had planned, obviously, but I still managed …
After a hiatus (you know, it's 2020...), we're back with The Model Rocket Show! This episode is a classic "workshop" episode fans of The Rocketry Show have come to enjoy - and the N00b is joined by Jesse and Gheem …
In this episode, we chat with James Duffy, an accomplished scale modeler and competitor in FAI international model rocketry competitions. James' main specialties in scale modeling are the Bumper WAC - an early American two-stage sounding rocket consis...
In this episode, we talk with Gary Rosenfield, who founded AeroTech Consumer Aerospace in 1982. AeroTech makes ammonium perchlorate composite propellant motors, often referred to as simply "composite motors.
In this episode the Rocket N00b answers some model rocketry questions - some beginner's questions commonly asked on online forums, as well as a couple questions sent to him through social media. "What's the Best Glue?" Yes, we know.
The Omega booster and Cineroc, simulated in OpenRocket by our guest, Jim Parsons In this episode, we talk with Jim Parsons, who was once described as "the Chuck Norris of OpenRocket." OpenRocket is free model rocket design and simulation software …
In today's episode, The Rocket N00b talks about FlisKits, the independent model rocket company started nearly 18 years ago by Jim Flis. We take a look back at an annual tradition of CMASS - the Central Massachusetts Spacemodeling Society - …
In our first episode, Daniel The Rocket N00b tells us his "origin story"...how he got into Model Rocketry, and gives an overview on what to expect on future episodes. The Rocket N00b and his fleet.