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My mates and I used to fire off Estes rockets on the vacant blocks in our subdivision (in Canada) when I was a kid. It was early days for model rocketry (back in the early 1960s), and we did some stupid things as young guys do with model rocket engines. It used to be so easy to buy them too, we could order them through the mail from Popular Science. We did launch a few two stage rockets with parachute recovery, and that was neat because the whole NASA program was just getting under way at the time to inspire us. Sadly the two stage rockets were much easier to lose, ha ha. It is nice to see that Estes is still in business today, after starting up in 1958..
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