Upcoming Launch Schedule

ROCC 2024-2025 Launch Schedule:

NO launch in May due to the wheat. We hope to fly in June. 

 

 All launches are at the Midland, NC site unless otherwise stated.*

Here are some other launch opportunities in our area:

ICBM & ROSCO, better known as Rocketry South Carolina, flies near Dalzelle, SC., Just NE of Shaw AFB.  More information can be gotten at their site HERE

The Saturn Rocketry Club in Hendersonville is currently switching their launch field. As soon as we know where they land we will post it. Their FB site is HERE

NC Rocketry flies at Bayboro, NC in the northeast part of the state, information is HERE

 Set-up starts at about 9:30, launches commence about 10:30. Field closes about 60 min. before local dusk so we can clean up. Watch the site front page for specifics. Also visit us on FaceBook. You can also check for the FAA NOTAM at https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/nsapp.html#/ and using KCLT (Charlotte) as the location. This will give you the starting and ending times for HP flights. 

* If field is available due to crops, etc.

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Saturday
Jan232016

AP, a strange and tangled past...

DateSaturday, January 23, 2016 at 12:51PM

We were watching TV the other night and heard about a rocket scientist from the mid '30s named Jack Parsons. I'd never run across his name and wondered why, so I do what ya do these days, I plugged his name into Google and out poured one of the starngest tales I had ever read about the birth of our propelant of choice, Amoinium Prechlorate. 

If you're interested, here's a few links, but it makes some strange reading...

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bb/babalon004.htm

http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/aeronautique/asphalt_rocket.php

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/23/jpl-jack-parsons

dr

 

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