Creating The Next Generation of Rocket Scientists

Where Spirits & Rockets Soar, Homer Hickam, Parade magazine

“The club [Birmingham Rocket Boys], which welcomes the young and old, is under the auspices of the National Association of Rocketry, a group dedicated to teaching the science under safe conditions. Two real rocket scientists from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight CenterVince Huegele and Chuck Piercevolunteer their time.”

Student teams tap Rocket City expertise, Huntsville Times

“Officials at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in Huntsville, the contractor for the space shuttle main engines, the Ares I upper-stage engine and the Ares V core-stage engines, decided that students from the Rocket City should be among the nation’s student rocketry elite. So the company teamed up with the local rocketry group to help make sure that happens.”