In this episdode, we welcome Steve Taylor from The Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) Each year, ESRA accepts over 150 collegiate teams from around the world to compete in the International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) for the prestigious title of overall winner! Each team designs, builds, tests and launches rockets with a payload size of up to 2.2 Kg and target altitudes of either 10,000, 30,000, 45,000 even up to 100,000 feet! Rockets are typically 4 to 8 inches in diamet...
May 20, 2025•55 min•Season 11Ep. 135
We welcome Special Guest Randy Millikin of RailButtons.Com! Randy Millikin of RailButtons.Com joins us to talk about his products, and to talk rockets with us. Some background on Mr. Millikin: I began my hobby of rocketry in the early to mid 70’s and stopped once I discovered girls, cars and got my first bass guitar. I launched my last rocket for many years somewhere around 1976. But then one day around 2003, while surfing the web, I came across Aerotech’s website and discovered this interesting...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 11Ep. 134
CG and Andrew visit Steve Eves' workshop where many local High Power rocketry enthusiasts had a party. We talk to Steve, Chris Pearson and a few fellow rocketry folks with a few fun conversations. Enjoy! Mentioned in this episode: The Rocketry Forum
Mar 31, 2025•46 min•Season 11Ep. 133
Welcome to another Rocket Friends episode (Formerly called Workshop Talk) In today's episode it's a Rocket Friends general rocketry discussion. We're joined by our good friend Andrew Kleinhenz and we cover a broad range of topics including: -Becoming a Prefect of a Tripoli chapter for the first time -The full story of "The Fainter of Goats" - The resolution to the AP supply issue from Aerotech - Speaking of...the right way to get into motor making - First time @ Airfest thoughts And more! Patron...
Nov 11, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 11Ep. 132
Welcome to the Season 11 premiere of The Rocketry Show! In this episode, we talk to Tom Fetter on a deep dive on why do our rockets turn into the wind?Tom's done a lot of research, and was excited to join us to share! Mentioned in this episode: eRockets eRockets The Rocketry Forum
Oct 21, 2024•56 min•Season 11Ep. 131
CG and Gheem gather for another test episode drop. We're making sure everything is good to go for the new season. We got a question from a listener that CG thought would make a good topic for this test drop episode... Mentioned in this episode: The Rocketry Forum
Sep 29, 2024•12 min•Season 10Ep. 130
CG and Gheeem get together to test our new podcast distribution setup before we start the new season by mid October. We talk about what we've been up to the past couple of months as well! Mentioned in this episode: The Rocketry Forum North Coast Rocketry
Sep 26, 2024•33 min•Season 11Ep. 130
As we prepare for a new season of The Rocketry Show, we have some technical work to do... This MIGHT cause a glitch in our feed that you might notice when we flip the switch, so to speak. Hopefully not! CG explains in this short drop...
Sep 22, 2024•5 min•Season 11Ep. 1
We remember one of the key founding members of Estes Rockets. Gleda Estes passed away earlier this year while we were out of production. We chose to dedicate an episode to her memory by listening to a re-enacting of the early years of Estes Rockets that she and husband Vern performed at NSL 2018.
Jul 22, 2024•37 min•Season 10Ep. 130
Welcome to our first "Rocket Friends episode of the new show format. This type of show was formerly called "Workshop Talk". In this episode we are joined with Bill and Rachel Daigle and they catch us up on their hobby adventures. Also in this episode: CG's flight computer project ticks along, and he talks about how that is shaping up. Gheem is grilled by all of us on what it's like to have his High School rocket team accepted into the NASA Student Launch competition this year. Enjoy!...
Jul 08, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 10Ep. 129
What's it like to send your hobby rocket to near space? Our guest, Kip Daugirdas explains. Kip is a Level 3 rocketeer, and he'll share his experiences and share some inside tips on the topic. He can be found on Twitter: @kipdaugirdas If you wish to follow Kip's Youtube channel, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@kdaugi
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 10Ep. 128
Steve Taylor, President of ESRA the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) joins us to talk all things Spaceport America Cup . The IREC event has been going on for over 20 years now, and there is a lot to learn about it!
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 10Ep. 127
A bit delayed, but here we are! In this episode, we do a quick review of NARCON 2024, and we give a look behind the curtain to tell you what has been going on...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 10Ep. 126
On this episode, our guest is Vance Martin, an amateur radio operator who goes under the callsign N3VEM. Martin became involved in rocketry as a kid in the typical way; seeing model rockets at the local hobby shop, and discovering the hobby with a friend. As he moved into middle and high school, he discovered mid and high power rocketry through online rocketry communities. While in college he built a PML 1/4 Scale Patriot rocket to use for his Level One, but was unable to find a nearby club to c...
Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 10Ep. 125
Are you really 'GO' to use your full FAA waiver? Greg Young shares his experiences with this topic, and what he learned is an eye opening education for all rocketeers! About our guest...Greg shares his background in rocketry... My rocketry experience started in 1961, at the ripe old age of 10years, when I ordered, built and flew rockets from Estes Industries. Try as I may, I was not successful at getting local hobby shops to carry rocketry supplies at that time, as the owners felt they were dang...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 9Ep. 124
The Rocketry Show team talk NSL West 2023 with Ed Lacroix and Matt Abbey.
May 29, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 9Ep. 123
Jeff Kodysz was a very talented rocketeer. His talents stretched from 3D printing, Lazer Etching, and he had a knack with making logos. He created the current logo for The Rocketry Show that you look at everytime you visit our website or listen to one of our episodes. Jeff passed away a few weeks ago after a short battle with illnesses. He will be missed by his friends, family, and us. We are all glad to have known him.
Apr 06, 2023•44 min•Season 9Ep. 122
CG stops by to give a quick update on technical changes some of you may have noticed, and what that means.
Apr 04, 2023•2 min•Season 9Ep. 122
The team talk about Narcon 2023, and we review this year’s calendar of big launch events so far…
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 9Ep. 122
In the first episode of Season 9, we talk to Joe Pfeiffer of the Open rocket team, diving a bit deeper into the program’s features, and some use case items for advanced and High power rocketry.
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 9Ep. 121
A brief summary of this episode
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 121
chapAppDesc Jesse and Gheem give a news update for December. The next season of The Rocketey Show starts in January!
Dec 30, 2022•49 min•Season 8Ep. 120
The full Rocketry Show team assemble to drop the latest news updates from the hobby AeroTech/Quest News AeroTech RMS K750ST-PS Rocket Motor Reload Kit New Product Information Release 7/11/22 AeroTech/Quest is pleased to announce the Tripoli certification and immediate availability of our new RMS Reloadable Motor System K750ST-PS rocket motor reload kit, AeroTech’s 2nd rocket motor reload kit designed to use the single-grain RMS-75/1280 hardware. Perfect for heavy rockets launched from small fiel...
Aug 01, 2022•36 min•Season 8Ep. 120
Items in this news podcast: SMT Designs releases all of their rocketry designs to public domain Steve Thatcher: "With my upcoming LDRS 40 trip and TRA Tech session there on "3D Printed Modular Avionics Bays", I wanted to make an announcement, so here it is..." Steve Thatcher says “I am in the process of releasing all of my rocketry designs to the public domain under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International” You can read the licensing in detail at https://creativecommons.org/lice...
Jun 21, 2022•29 min•Season 8Ep. 120
Conway Stevens answers your questions from Episode 115.
Jun 04, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 8Ep. 120
Sorry for the delay. Lots going on in our worlds, and we talk about it later in the show...BUT more importantly: Mike Crupe joins us from Mac Performance rocketry ! We've learned about a new (to us) way to do rocketry! CG gets pulled in big time, and you'll find out why when you listen! Enjoy!
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Season 8Ep. 120
Join our guests, Bill and Rachel Daigle, who are known as father and daughter rocketeers from our neighbors up North in New Brunswick CA! Bill talks to us about his tenure as an officer of the Canadian Rocketry Association and his career as a hobby rocketeer! He even has graced the cover of Sport Rocketry. Rachel tells us about how she was involved in the hobby at a young age and the joys of flying with Bill. Bill and Rachel talk about their individual projects and shed some insight into their l...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 8Ep. 119
Gary Rosenfield joins us to update us on some of the latest going on at Aerotech as well as: - Tips and tricks for selecting an appropriate motor for your high power certifcations. - What he is up to for Hampster Dance 2022. - Gary's project of digitizing a bunch of old super-8 footage of some historic & interesting high power launches from the early days of HPR. All this along with some interesting rocket talk!
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 8Ep. 118
chapAppDescHappy Holidays, and Welcome to the latest episode of The Rocketry Show for the week of December 19, 2021! This time around, we close out the year catching up on your voice and emails, and what we have been up to, and what's next for our shows. One of our listeners mentions wanting to hear from John Beans and Joe Barnard. We talked to both of them in previous episodes. If you want to check them out too, then here are the links to the latest ones. Latest John Beans Episode ( Episode 30)...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 56 min•Season 8Ep. 117
chapAppDesc In this episode, Steve Thatcher returns to talk about what is new from SMT Designs. He has been busy innovating new options for your rocket AV Bay needs for almost all rockets –including ones up to eight inches in diameter! We think you should check these out! We think you’ll enjoy this information, and Steve’s rocket stories as well.
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 8Ep. 116
