National Sport Launch 2008 to be held in Orangeburg, SC

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2007 Archived News by Planet News

Saturday, September 08, 2007

MARION, Iowa USA — The National Association of Rocketry's National Events Committee announced today that the 2008 NAR National Sport Launch has been awarded to the team of ROSCO (NAR section 648) and SoAR (NAR section 571) over the dates of May 24-26, 2008 at Orangeburg, SC.

The event will be held at the well-known Super Sod farm field near Orangeburg off Interstate 26, the site of two previous LDRS events, with a 10,000 foot FAA waiver.

Burl Finkelstein and Mark Canepa have been appointed as the event's co-directors. Initial point of contact for NSL 2008 is Burl Finkelstein at (770)/251-4080, or via email at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . Make your plans to attend now.

Reader comments:

Anyone heard anything on NARCON for next year yet?

Sirius Rocketry on 09-12-2007 08:51 PM

No. We were thinking about it until the idea of co-hosting NSL came up. I even considered putting in a bid for it along with doing NSL, but decided the time period is too short. Maybe next year.

royatl on 09-13-2007 11:40 AM

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