Just a reminder that the rocket launch originally scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, at the Forsyth field has been canceled due to the continuing pandemic isolation orders. It actually looks

Just finished watching perhaps one of the cheesiest movies ever, “Space Probe Taurus” which was made in 1965. It’s available without interruption on youtube and is about 80 minutes long. Guess I’ll wa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWR2XOV5pHo

A full version of the 1961 feature film “X-15” is available on YouTube (in glorious standard definition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhrv1EFbQIw It was the first feature directed by Richard Donne

Probably a bit late but it took me too long to decide “what” I need to do. Since stuck here, started one of my. GARLO projects today.

Buzz Aldrin, who spent three weeks in quarantine after returning from the moon decades ago, is self-isolating amid the coronavirus pandemic. The former astronaut told ARS Technica when asked what he w

The Operations and Schedule pages on the CIA web site have been updated to reflect our current plans for the year. Obviously, there will be changes as the year goes along, but it will give you an idea

The National Association of Rocketry has issued an advisory requesting that all NAR sections refrain from holding any launches or in-person meetings at least through April 1, 2020. Therefore, our Marc

I don't suppose anyone is surprised to hear that we have cancelled the monthly business meeting at Papa Del's pizza. If anyone knows of any important business that we should be dealing with let us kno

GARLO 2020 (the Great Annual Rocket Launch Of 2020) is scheduled for Saturday, June 27. The rain date is July 11. Hopefully we will be able to be flying again by that time. The theme for this year is

There will be no rocket launch on Saturday, March 14. Hopefully, we will see you on the 28th. ----- Greg Smith N9LHI NAR 15881 * TRA 1974 Director of Operations, Central Illinois Aerospace greg@... 21

In response to the many concerns and cancellations related to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic, our leadership has been debating about what CIA events we should continue to hold over the next f

There are several events related to space exploration taking place this Tuesday, March 10 on the U of I campus. It seems like there is nothing happening for a long time and then suddenly several thing

Some club members will be traveling to Eureka, IL on Saturday, April 4 to hold a workshop for 4-H kids. We will be helping them build and then fly some easy model rockets. The workshop will run from n

Hi, Last year the BBC put out an excellent 12-episode podcast on the flight of Apollo 11. Even though I’m familiar with the history, I really enjoyed listening. Now season 2 has started, covering Apol

from the previous stencil using Cricut. George

Needs a bit more work. Please excuse the cat dish.

Got this media cutter called a Cricut. Here is an example using removable vinyl for a stencil. George Krumins

Tonight's launch was one of those that stuns. The trajectory was almost directly away from my house, and there was not enough moonlight to see the booster, so it was all about the base...the engines,

In the past we used to try to hold NAR rocket competition events at our launches a few times a year. The NAR changed the way the organize and run their competitions a few years ago and we weren't sure