TONEY, Alabama USA — Students from nine colleges and universities across the nation will raise thunder across the North Alabama sky April 19, sending aloft rockets of their own making for NASA's 2007-2008 University Student Launch Initiative.

NEW YORK, New York USA — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell and Apollo 7's Walter Cunningham joined LAUNCH Magazine for Monday night's New York premiere of the film, The Wonder of It All. Also on hand was film director Jeffrey Roth, and Andrew Chaikin, author of the book, A Man on the Moon.

MARION, Iowa USA — The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) is responding to member's requests for better communication between the operations of the organization and the member body.  The NAR has started its response by establishing an electronic newsletter distribution service.

WORLD WIDE WEB — After several months of "tweaking and testing," John Derimiggio of New York has released his hybrid rocket motor thermal vent sensor.  The sensor clips onto the hybrid motor's nitrous vent tube and illuminates a bright LED when the motor is venting.

GRANGER, Texas USA — The Austin Area Rocketry Group (AARG) plowed new ground this weekend and it wasn't with the nosecone of a lawn dart.  AARG became the first group to leverage the power of Justin TV's self-broadcasting system by webcasting their monthly launch.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas USA — When is an igniter not an igniter? That is the question that David Bachelder of QuickBurst has been trying to get answered for some time now, and depending on just who you ask, the question may just confuse you as much as it did him.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada USA — Scott Ulrey of Just Rockets, Inc. and Matt Steele of North Coast Rocketry regret to announce that they have not been able to reach an agreement to return the North Coast Rocketry line to production, a deal that was announced in January.

WORLD WIDE WEB — G. Harry Stine, widely held to be the "father of model rocketry," has been nominated for the Federation Aeronautique Internationale's (FAI) "Aeromodelling Gold Medal," and his contributions to the hobby lauded in a short biographical video.

WORLD WIDE WEB — John Coker of ThrustCurve.org has been recently updated the site with hundreds of additional data files and a completely rewritten motor guide.  Be sure to give the new motor guide a try as it automatically picks motors that work for your rocket.

VAN ORIN, Illinois USA — LDRS 2008 is scheduled to be an exciting event and more contests are being added all the time.  Tim Lehr of Wildman Rocketry has just upped the ante with his contribution to the latest LDRS contest: an event called Shred the Wildman contest.