Hundreds of thousands of Americans fly model rockets, but the hobby is being threatened by increased federal regulation. View Slideshow On a recent weekend, Erik Ebert traveled to Nevada's remote ...

TITUSVILLE — It was supposed to target terrorism, not toy rockets. But enthusiasts who build and launch model rockets say a provision in the Homeland Security Act threatens to ground a hobby ...

WASHINGTON - Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi's effort to exempt hobby rocketeers from the homeland security law is under fire from two Democratic senators from the states most affected by the ...

WASHINGTON — As a former employee of the California company that made MX and Minuteman missiles, Casper businessman John Wickman knows a thing or two about what is dangerous.

Amateur rocket builder Cary Laue started constructing models almost 30 years ago. In recent years he has been using a computer simulation program to help design and 'scratch build' rockets.

Mark Howe describes himself as a born-again rocketeer. After first enjoying hobby rockets as a child, the Spokane resident took it up again and regained the enthusiasm he had as a kid when he saw ...

As a child, Dupont frequented Dildine’s, a hobby store in Hammond, Indiana. The shop was filled with things he couldn’t see anywhere else: model rockets, trains and airplanes — some with ...

Nowaczyk's rocket is a monster by hobby standards—17 feet long and 375 pounds. It looks like a big white cigarette with a silver needle nose on one end, three badass fins on the other, ...

Solid-fuel rockets are great for plenty of things, like boosting Space Shuttles into orbit or launching a hobby rocket into not-quite-orbit-but-way-way-up-there. Of course, if you want a semblance ...