Model Rocketry Magazine
I recently won a couple of Model Rocketry magazines on eBay and they arrived in the mail yesterday. Both are from 1969. It's amazing how much the hobby has aged in the short time since then.
There was a great story in there about the launch of Apollo 11, and how G. Harry Stine was sent by CBS to Cape Kennedy to launch his Estes Saturn V model in the press area moments after the real Apollo 11 rocket left the ground. Unfortunately that never came to be as NASA wouldn't allow him to launch it. Very interesting times.
There was a great story in there about the launch of Apollo 11, and how G. Harry Stine was sent by CBS to Cape Kennedy to launch his Estes Saturn V model in the press area moments after the real Apollo 11 rocket left the ground. Unfortunately that never came to be as NASA wouldn't allow him to launch it. Very interesting times.
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Permalink Reply by Sirius Rocketry on
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That was the magazine that got me started in hobby rocketry. My dad brought a copy of Model Rocketry magazine home (MRm) for me from the bookstore in 1969 a few months before Apollo 11 and continued to bring them home for months after. Not too much time later, I got my first model rocket. Model Rocketry magazine is one of those sentimental magazines for me, some great memories are inside of them for me, and I still have a few of my originals left. It is neat to see what the state of the art was almost 40 years ago. And the mix of real space coverage and model rockets they had reminds me a lot of a current day magazine called LAUNCH...
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Permalink Reply by Darrell Mobley on
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Yes, it does remind you of LAUNCH. Mark Mayfield has a real winner on his hands.
Do you know the history of MRm? I am curious as to the length of time it was in publication and what the value of the issues I got are. And also interested in getting more!
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I know something of the history of the magazine, but there are others who would probably elaborate much better than I. I know the magazine was founded by George Flynn, Gordon Mandell, George Caporoso and Thomas Milkie. The first issue was in 1968 and the last in 1972. I know that folks who still have the issues tend to hang on to them for sentimental value, so I would suppose the value is rather high. I would grab a few more paper issues if I could find them! I especially hang onto the ones I have since they are the ones my late father got for me as a youngster, and they have been pawed over thoroughly by my (then young) hands.
However, everyone can enjoy them, as all of the issues have been scanned and are available online at Sven Knudson's site here.
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I knew I had seen these magazine before, and I thought my deja vu was from 35 years ago! ;-) Thanks for the heads up on the PDFs, that's a great cache.
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Permalink Reply by Art Upton on
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Hi Darrell,
I was lucky to grow up reading those magazines as I started in the model rocket hobby.
Seing the "Neat Stuff" that Forest Mims, the MIT guys, and folks like Guppy were playing with at the college level was very motivating for me to learn math and science. I even got one of Forest's (and Ed Roberts) Altairs in the late 70s based on those magazines corrupting my youth ;)
I still have about a 2 foot stack of those mags in my archives and look at them about every 4 years or so when I can get into my catacombs the archives are stored in.
I have early Tripolitans from 88 forward as well in those catacombs. As an ARrrrrr I was lucky to have been able to join up in hi-power early as well.
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I got rid of all my old magazines and have started trying to replace them. You can imagine how much more that's costing me today. If you ever run across anyone wanting to unload theirs let me know.
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