Welcome to the National Association of Rocketry!

The NAR is all about having fun and learning more with and about sport rockets. We are the oldest and largest sport rocketry organization in the world. Since 1957, over 100,000 serious sport rocket modelers have joined the NAR to take advantage of the fun and excitement of organized rocketry. Read our organizational statement to see more about who we are and what we do.

Attend NAR National Events

Read Sport Rocketry Magazine!

Sport Rocketry issue coversSport Rocketry is a bi-monthly magazine jam-packed with building tips, plans, product reviews, technical information, space science features, interviews, and reports on launches and other rocketry activities from all over the country! In alternate months, NAR members also receive theModel Rocketeer newsletter, which contains official Association notices and an up-to-the minute schedule of upcoming launches and activities! (Check our our free online sample issue!)

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Visit NAR Organized Rocket Launches!

NAR members and Sections host hundreds of launches each year — both sport launches and competitions — from the local and regional levels to national events. Check out our Online Launch Windows calendar listing some of the launches coming up in the next few months, in the United States and worldwide.

Kids holding big rocketsConnect With NAR Local Clubs!

When you get together with model rocket flyers in a NAR Section near you — participate in building sessions, launches, and more! Your sport rocket designing, building, and flying is always more fun when you have rocket flying friends joing you. If you’d like to have a club closer to you, we’ll even show you how to start a new one!

Black-I Sioux High Power Rocket

Liftoff With High-Power Rocketry!

Build bigger, climb higher and fly faster! As an adult NAR member, you can become qualified to purchase and use rocket motors more powerful than those allowed to be sold to the general public!

Indulge your Competitive Spirit!

NAR members have the unique opportunity to fly rockets for bragging rights and trophies. Sections across the country hold contests where you can discover how long you can keep a parachute or streamer recovery model in the air; how high you can fly a raw egg and recover it without damage, or how accurately you can recreate a scaled-down model of a real rocket and make it fly! Go to our contest flying pages for lots of resources. Check out the NAR’s online contest calendar to find a rocket competition near you. Become a National Champion!

Learn New Rocket Techniques with NARTREK!

NARTREK participants can work in groups...When you join the NARTREK (National Association of Rocketry Training Rocketeers for Experience and Knowledge) program, you fly increasingly complex rockets through three levels. As each level is finished, you receive an Achievement Certificate and a jacket patch certifying your accomplishment. You are under no time limit. You progress at your own pace. You can even “try it before you buy it” by downloading the NARTREK Bronze level packet now, and following the instructions on the first page!

Launch Student Learning with NAR Educational Materials!

If you’re a teacher, the NAR can help you engage and energize your students with our educational DSC00037 copyresources and 50+ years of model rocket expertise. Go to our Educator’s page for free downloads of rocket plans, lesson guides and grant applications. To subscribe to our bi-monthly NAR Educators e-Newsletter full of ideas and announcements, simply fill out the short survey and contact information form. We’ll be happy to put you on the mailing list.

Connect with Other NAR Members!

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All these exciting activities and benefits can be yours…
..as soon as you become a member of the National Association of Rocketry!

 

Rocket News

September 2016 eRocketeer – Number 100!

The September 2016 eRocketeer has been posted.  This month we feature a new presidential portrait, expanded coverage about our 2017 National Events, some pad safety tips, and thoughts on competition flying. There is a mention about ARLISS, your NAR president visited Black Rock desert for the first time and helped with this long-term student project launch. TARC 2017 registrations are up and running. Help us make the 15th anniversary a special year for TARC. We are still asking for comments on proposed rule changes for contest flying. See my post that is an attempt by John Hochheimer to provide an elevator speech on contest flying and the proposed changes. For the complete September 2016 eRocketeer, click here.

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August 2016 eRocketeer

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  • — 3 Sep, 2016

The August 2016 electronic Rocketeer has been posted. This month we highlight Team USA results from the 2016 World Championships for Space Models, held in Lviv, Ukraine. Also featured is the announcement for commenting on the proposed new rules for competition rocketry. Read the post about how to submit your comments.  TARC 2017 is now open for teams to register and hopefully to begin practice flights. We always need mentors to help guide teams, as well as observers for certifying official flights.  If you are a returning mentor, thanks and if you are thinking about being a mentor, please do.  It is fun and so rewarding.  BTW, TARC is 15 this year.  Your president, for one, never dreamed that we would be going stronger than ever at 15.  For the complete August 2016 eRocketeer, click here.

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New Competition Rules – Seeking Comments from NAR Membership

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  • — 1 Sep, 2016

On September 1, 2016, a draft of the new rule book for NAR competition will be available for members to download. Click this link to go to a page containing both PDF and HTML versions of the draft rule book.

The page containing these two downloads also presents a “Forum” through which NAR members will be able to input suggested changes to the draft rules. The Forum presents the rules in the order in which each section is presented in the draft rule book. So for example, if you wish to suggest a change to the rules regarding “Altitude Data,” you would post your suggestion to Section 14: Altitude Data on the Forum webpage.

The Forum is moderated. Because input to the Forum can be read by any NAR member, input that contains unacceptable speech may not be posted (viewable). Input must be suitable for our youngest members to read. Please focus your input on how to improve and/or clarify the draft rules- the ECS wants your input.

The membership will have until November 30, 2016 (90 days) to provide input via the Forum. On December 1, 2016, the Forum will no longer accept input and the ECS will begin the task of integrating member input into the draft rule book. A timeline proposed by the ECS has a final draft rule book going out to the Board for review prior to NARCON- 2017, with a final up/down vote at NARCON. If accepted, the new rule book will become effective for the 2017-2018 contest year and will determine the results of NARAM 60.

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