NAPLES, Florida USA — Florida resident and Washington, D.C. beltway attorney Joseph R. Egan died today after an prolonged battle with cancer.  Egan was lead attorney on the hobby's landmark lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

FREDRICKSBURG, Texas USA — Brett Williams is leading a charge to re-establish the United States as a leader in science, math and engineering, by lighting a spark in America's youth through a rocketry-based education program called SystemGo Aeroscience and Ignite Education.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama USA — Clark Word, of 20/20 Vertical and Word Associates, Inc., has put together a collection of videos for this past weekend's NASA Student Launch Initiative launch held in Toney, Alabama, the middle and high school companion to NASA's university student event.

WORLD WIDE WEB — The first edition of the National Association of Rocketry's The Electronic Rocketeer has rolled off the virtual presses and is on the way to members now. The NAR has taken up this initiative to help maintain better communication with their members.

ELSWORTH, Cambridge UK — This weekend will find the East Anglian Rocketry Society playing host to Big EARS 2008, the first big launch event of the year for the group.  The Big EARS launch will take place at the group's New Farm launch site at Elsworth, near Cambridge.

CANTIL, California USA — The Sugar Shot to Space team experienced a casing failure during a static firing of their MiniSShot motor, a scaled-down version of the flight vehicle, this past Saturday at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry test facility in the Mojave Desert.

DOYLINE, Louisiana USA — In a powder mill in the piney woods of northern Louisiana, workers of the GOEX Black Powder plant carry on an American tradition, grinding out granules of black powder. GOEX, Inc. is the only producer of black powder in North America.

SEATTLE, Washington USA — A little over 50 years ago, the United States of America entered the space race after the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 satellite. Shortly thereafter, a new and exiting hobby was born on the wings of that event, the hobby of model rocketry.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama USA — Clark Word, of 20/20 Vertical and Word Associates, Inc., has announced the release of his commemorative DVD for the staff, sponsors, teams and volunteers of this past Saturday's University Student Launch Initiative, or USLI, an event sponsored by NASA.