"There is a lot more to model rocketry than building and flying your own missiles.  Sooner or later, you're going to want to know how well your missile performed and how high it went.

To do this job for its big missiles, the government has spend several hundred megabucks in such places as White Sands and Cape Canaveral.  Fortunately, you don't need to have this sort of money to set up adequate proving ground[s] of your own."

These were G. Harry Stine's opening paragraphs in "Colorado's Little Canaveral," an article that appeared in American Modeler magazine in December 1958. Stine wrote many articles in the early days of the hobby and was instrumental in shaping its future.

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