Began Operations: 1958 Web Site: http://www.estesrockets.com/
Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes, and his wife Gleda, in Denver, Colorado, in 1958. Vern Estes designed and built the first machine for mass producing model rocket motors and began selling rocket kits by mail in 1960.
In 1961, the company moved to Penrose, Colorado.
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