I've moved everyone from the old Prairienet email list to the Yahoo group. So if you have a message for the CIA list send it to this new list. Hopefully everything will work pretty much as in the past

Hi all, We'll be running a Rocketry Workshop for the Champaign 4-H club next Monday, Dec. 8 at the U of I Extension office, 801 N. Country Fair Drive. Anyone who is willing to help out should meet the

This guy has several really neat 300fps videos of rocket launches taken with his Casio EX-F1 camera. Greg mentioned this camera on Tuesday. Wow, those videos are neat. If you've got a fast network, us

Hi, This is a reminder that we'll be running a Rocketry Workshop for the Champaign 4-H club tonight at the U of I Extension office, 801 N. Country Fair Drive from 7-9. We'll do our presentation first,

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I added a new gallery in the Outreach and Education section of our Smugmug site, with 22 pictures from the 4-H presentation and building workshop we held on Monday (12/8/2008). Enjoy. http://cia-rocke

Greg asked me to post this, due to the fact that the wind is 23 mph, with gusts to 37 mph, today's launch has been canceled. Our next launch will be December 27th, so ask Santa for lots of rocket stuf

We will be holding our last business meeting of the year this coming Tuesday, December 16, 7 p.m. at the Village Inn Pizza in Champaign. We will be discussing and working on the calendar of CIA activi

For those who might be interested, a download of a free NASA calendar www.nasa.gov/pdf/296130main_calendar09-100pdf and a website featuring Earth from space, and Space Shuttle in orbit with the Space

The next edition of the Informant, the CIA newsletter, is being printed and will be mailed out to all members soon. Given the upcoming holidays it may happen that they won't all get mailed until after

I had a few minutes between meetings today and went into Slot & Wing. There at the front door they have two Estes Oracle video rockets for sale for $29.95 (orig. retail $129.95). A quick Internet & Eb

A photo from one of the locals... The view I had was incredible.. As it flew southward over land, we saw the left side, and got the best look at the right side as the piggybacked shuttle flew up the b

All, Over the weekend I won a Rocket R&D kit on Ebay (ASP, 4" dia, 7' tall, 54mm mount). It looks pretty sweet (although I don't physically have it yet). In any case, according to the packaging, Rocke

Here is the official (as of this moment) CIA events calendar for 2009. This has been reviewed by the board and we believe everything is accurate -- but special events do come up, and weather and perso

I can describe the chances for holding our scheduled launch on Saturday, December 27 no better than by quoting the official forecast: ----- Saturday Dense fog advisory in effect until 4 am CST Saturda

Not a chance ... 61 °F Rain Wind: 33 mph from the SSE Wind Gust: 46 mph Pressure: 29.71 in (Falling) Visibility: 3.0 miles UV: 1 out of 16 Clouds: Few 700 ft Overcast 2000 ft (Above Ground Level) ----

A reminder to all that we'll try once again this year to hold our annual New Year's Day launch on Thursday, January 1, 2009, with setup starting at noon at Dodds Park. We haven't been able to hold the

Despite the weather being bad for a number of launches I did get some flights in. Here's the numbers (if I counted right, I am terrible at math). 106 motors, 106 flights, no clusters this year. 13 EX

Our first meeting of 2009 will be held next Tuesday, January 6, at the Springer Center starting at 7 p.m. The topic for the meeting will be Rocketry Videos. So bring any interesting tapes or DVD's you

We relax our usual weather standards for the New Year's Day launch, so we can get a little first-of-the-year flying in, even if it's too cold to stay out very long. Still, we have our limits, especial