BATON ROUGE, Louisiana USA — Giant Leap Rocketry now offers the Firestorm 54 in Dyna-Wind airframe. Dyna-Wind is the compression-bonded composite tubing offered exclusively by Giant Leap. The Firestorm is available in single and dual deployment versions.

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.

WORLD WIDE WEB — Rogers Aeroscience is currently looking for Beta testers for their new RASAero software. RASAero is a combined aerodynamic analysis and flight simulation software package for model and high power rockets, experimental rockets, and sounding rockets.

NEWARK, Ohio USA — Josh Robinson knew he wanted to go into aerospace aeronautics after college, but he never thought he would be able to build rockets before that.

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.

LAKEWOOD, Colorado USA — The May-June (#72) of Extreme Rocketry magazine is now available for purchase from retailers or from the Extreme Rocketry webstore. This issue features a wide variety of articles from advanced experimental rocketry subjects to getting started in rocketry.

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas USA — The inaugural Tuloso-Midway High School hybrid rocket successfully lifted off at 10:53 am Friday, April 25 kicking off the two day Rockets ’08 event at the Paul Meek Ranch, south of Fredericksburg.

BELLEVILLE, Illinois USA — It's easy to be skeptical of Gary Streeter's plan to put a satellite into space. After all, he has bought many of his rocket parts at Home Depot. His engine testing ground is the weed-choked yard of a 145-year-old brick home on the edge of downtown.

GORMLEY, Ontario CAN — Cesaroni Technology Incorporated is pleased to announce the certification of White Thunder™ propellant in the Pro38® product line as well as three brand new Vmax™ propellant reloads for the Pro54® product line.

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.