Inspiration can be found in numerous places and often comes unexpectantly.  Mitch Marchi II's unique fin beveling tool is just one of those pieces of simple ingenuity that makes you slap your forehead and exclaim, "Wow, I could've had a V8!"

A strange thing happens on "The Astronaut Farmer's" mad dash for mediocrity: reality comes crashing into his happy story of make-believe and shakes things up. A fantasy about a dreamer who refuses to concede his quest to fly one day into space—going so far as to build a towering rocket ship in his barn—the new film from the Polish brothers (the same pair who brought us "Twin Falls Idaho" and "Northfork") is a fairy-tale for the terrorism age.

It happened way back in 1969.  Jamie Clay, of San Rafael, California, had a birthday, and on this birthday, he got a Hasbro GI Joe Mercury Space Capsule.  Fast forward, thirty years later. Toys-R-Us and Hasbro have re-issued the GI Joe Mercury Space Capsule, and Jamie was better prepared to follow up on his earlier childhood dreams.  He wanted to do a special Level 3 project, and the GI Joe Mercury Space Capsule seemed like a viable subject.  The capsule's base was 9.25" in diameter and all it took was a locating a body tube of that size and the projected began to gel.

This feature segment is on Paul Warren's Rocketry Photo Gallery. Paul is 30 years old, and works at AT&T. Paul works there as a Senior Software Engineer who is responsible for the layout, format and production of the AT&T residential long-distance bill.

Second only to LDRS, the annual Airfest at Argonia, Kansas is, as the Kloudbusters would like to put it, the largest rocket launch of the year. This year's Labor Day weekend launch opened at 8:00 AM on Saturday, Sept. 5th. The weather was outstanding. The sun was shining and the winds were light, about 5 mph. In other words big, beautiful blue Kansas skies.