HUNTSVILLE, Alabama USA — The announcer could be heard clearly over the wind gusting across the open fields of Bragg Farms in Toney Saturday morning.

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta CAN — The Canadian Association of Rocketry’s Motor Certification Committee kicked off the 2008 flying season in a marathon certification session that ran for 5 consecutive days in April. More than 150 HPR motors, totaling over 350,000 Newton seconds of impulse were fired.

BRIGHAM CITY, Utah USA — Only three more days until rockets lift off into the Northern Alabama sky. A college-level rocket launch competition sponsored by Alliant Techsystems and hosted by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will take place April 19.

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.

PARIS, Texas USA — It’s rocket science.  Five students from Chisum Middle School are to travel to Virginia May 17 for the Team America Rocketry Challenge, billed as the world’s largest model rocket contest.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico USA — Spaceport America has launched two unmanned commercial rockets and touts plans for space tourism, but some secret rocket research also is being done. Lockheed Martin Corporation is now using the spaceport to advance some of its less-publicized technology.

LAKEWOOD, Colorado USA — For several years now, Extreme Rocketry magazine has had a regular column appearing in each issue titled the 'Construction Zone.' The column contains information about intermediate to advanced scratch building techniques.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas USA — A new kit from QuickBurst will be available online in two weeks, but that doesn't mean you have to wait to get a glimpse of it.  The RK2454DD, being labeled as "dual deployment in a box," has everything but the altimeter, wiring and a motor.

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.