LOS GATOS, California USA - After months of test marketing, Gene Engelgau is ready to take the wraps off his family-run business, Fruity Chutes, a custom parachute and recovery system manufacturer just south of San Jose.  Engelgau co-owns the company with his wife, Paula.

CEDAR CITY, Utah USA — AeroTech is releasing a new Mojave Green™ propellant reload kit for AeroTech and Rouse-Tech™ RMS-29/40-120 reloadable model rocket motor hardware, the G76G, which produces a highly visible exhaust plume with a distinctive green color.

CEDAR CITY, Utah USA — The Tripoli Motor Testing (TMT) Committee of the Tripoli Rocketry Association has certified three new AeroTech high power Mojave Green™ propellant reloads to fit AeroTech, Dr. Rocket™ and Rouse-Tech™ 54/1706, 75/5120 and 98/7680 RMS™ hardware.

VAN ORIN, Illinois USA — Wildman's is pleased to announce the release of their Proline Epoxy. This is the best epoxy I have used so far, it dries harder than the other brands I have used. It comes to a complete cure faster with no need to bake it and its stronger.

NEW YORK CITY, New York USA — MM Publishing Inc., owner and publisher of LAUNCH Magazine, has just released the company's first issue of Ad Astra, the official publication of the National Space Society. The Spring 2008 issue is on its way to 15,000 NSS members.

NEW YORK CITY, New York USA — Acclaimed science fiction writer Ben Bova delivers a powerful essay on the politics behind NASA's first 50 years of existence in the jam-packed latest issue of LAUNCH Magazine, on its way now to subscribers and newsstands everywhere.

TORONTO, Ontario CAN — Sunward Aerospace Group Limited today announced a new line of cluster cables, for use with from 2 to 12 motors, resources for researchers of siege engines, and other parts, including the availability of tilted motor mounts.

LAGUNA WOODS, California USA — Madcow Rocketry is proud to announce a new 38mm minimum diameter rocket called Screech, a 40.5" screamer measuring 1.6" in diameter weighing just 8 oz, and features a custom balsa nosecone and plywood fins.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana USA — Giant Leap Rocketry, Inc. has released their new Slim-Shot electronic deployment device. The Slim-Shot is a combination altimeter and mini-avionics bay that fires an ejection charge at apogee for rockets not configured for dual deployment.

TOLEDO, Ohio USA — Fast Freddie Ziegler has been up to some interesting business in his Fade to Black workshop, enduring the frozen tundra of the Northwest Ohio winter. His newest creation is the Tri-Pad series of mid-power pads at a very affordable cost of $35.