But enthusiasts who build and launch model rockets say a provision in the Homeland Security Act threatens to ground a hobby that for ... be subjected to federal background checks, fingerprinting ...

Under the law, hobbyists must spend $100 to get a permit, undergo a background check and be fingerprinted before purchasing rocket fuel. Enzi, who launched hobby rockets when he was in high school ...

Hobbyists and stargazers can take comfort — homeland security isn’t grounding model rockets. Hobby store manager Brian Harvey says congress did look at requiring background checks and ...

They will also have to undergo extensive background checks that could take ... Wickman and others in the hobby rocket industry will not be laughing. "Many people are saying if there is no relief ...

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 ...

The temperature has risen enough so those launching rockets won't risk frostbitten fingers while assembling motors and wires, the final steps before sending hobby rockets a mile into the sky.

Loading Canberra Rocketry Group president Nev Blyth has a materials engineering background ... and hobby rocketry activities," he said. "Everything from scale models of rockets that have been ...

Dupont is pictured with a model rocket in the Hammond High School yearbook. As a child, Dupont frequented Dildine’s, a hobby store in Hammond, Indiana. The shop was filled with things he couldn ...

Long before model rockets became Randy Boadway’s business, it was his hobby. Now Boadway shares that hobby with hundreds of beginners every year, both through his company, eRockets, and through ...