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Dick Stafford's Rocket Dungeon Blog

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    The Enzmann Starship Family (2010-08-27)
    I just saw Scott Lowther's post on his forthcoming diagrams of the Enzmann Starship .  A quick search yielded several hits, including a site dedicated to the nuclear pulse starships proposed by ... [Read More]

    A pair of book reviews: The Spaceship Handbook and The Saucer Fleet (2011-01-06)
    The Spaceship Handbook and The Saucer Fleet are complimentary works by Jack Hagerty and Jon Rogers and are both published through the ARA Press .  The Spaceship Handbook provides information on ... [Read More]

    G. Harry Stine stuff (2011-03-26)
    Chris Michielssen reminds us that today is his birthday and reminisces about their encounters.  He also points to the following video, which I think I've previously posted.  But, it's ... [Read More]

    "Where did model rocketry really start?" (2012-06-05)
    Issue 314 of Apogee's Newsletter features an article with the same title as this post.  Written by sport and professional rocketeer William Colburn,  the article features several ... [Read More]

    Retro-amateur rocketry abroad (2013-11-13)
    Earlier today, Flickr user Morbius19 , sent me a couple of links regarding the Manchester Interplanetary Society's rocketry activities circa the 1930's. The main site, Harry Turner's Footnotes to ... [Read More]

    A brief history of the Dangerous Origins of Model Rocketry (2014-03-18)
    io9 has published an interesting post about the history of model rocketry: The Dangerous Origins of Model Rocketry . The article explains that, while model rocketry has an 'almost impeccable safety ... [Read More]