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NARAM 62

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MARS along with our sister club “the Syracuse Rocket Club” has accepted the honor of hosting NARAM-62, in July of 2020. We realize not many MARS members know what NARAM is, or have ever participated in any competition flying. With that we will do our best to explain what this is all about. NARAM is the “National Association of Rocketry’s Annual Meet” and “Rocket Festival” (Well That Explains it ALL). NARAM is unlike any launch or event MARS has hosted in 20yrs. (MARS has hosted NARAM 37 and 43) NARAM … Continue reading →

Apollo 11 Day (Weekend)

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July 20th MARS will be joining in the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11. For this special event we will be flying from 12noon until 8pm followed by a night launch, at 4:17pm (the time when the Eagle landed) we will have a mass launch of Saturn V rockets, or any models willing to participate. Sunday we fly from 10am — ??? Because of our location on the field next week, our waiver will be 10,000, if you are planing to fly above 9k you will need a … Continue reading →

June Launch and “Pot Luck” Dinner

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OUR Season is just now beginning, Next weekend (June 8th & 9th) is our June Club Launch, don’t trust the weather guessers, come by the field We WILL BE THERE! MaryBeth will be hosting a potluck dinner on the field this Saturday night? If you are planning to attend, please let me know what you’re bringing. We are hopeful the grass will be mowed, if not we will fly where we did for NYPOWER… Mark you Calendars for July 12 – 14th, our Biggest outreach and membership drive/recruiting of the … Continue reading →

RMSC – 2019 “A Day at the Museum”

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A Day at the Museum Once again we will be displaying our rockets at the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC) on East Avenue on May 18, 2019 from 10AM to 2PM. Here is a chance to show off some of your rockets and help explain our hobby to a captive audience.  The kids in the museum love it and parents generally say “I used to fly rockets!”  It is a time to get people interested or re-interested in the hobby and recruit new club members. We will have videos, … Continue reading →

Central NY Rocket Team Challenge 2019

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Every June the Museum of Science and Technology (The MOST) in Syracuse sponsors the Central New York Rocket Team Challenge.   This is a contest in which middle school and high school teams build and fly mid-power rockets, competing in areas including rocket construction, aesthetic design, egg payload protection, flight performance, apogee prediction and rocketry knowledge.  This year’s competition will be held on Saturday June 1, 2019 at the Skytop parking area on Syracuse University’s South Campus.   The Syracuse Rocket Club assists in this event by staffing the launch pads, … Continue reading →

2019 Cleanup Party

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Rocket season is right around the corner. We think everyone is looking forward to a great flying season. Your MARS board of Trustee’s, and Your Committees have been very busy the last few months, but now we need your help! Our “Main Event”, NYPOWER will soon be here and we need to do some maintenance, inspect, clean, and inventory the equipment. We will have a Cleanup Party May 4th at 10am in the parking lot of the National Warplane Museum. Many hands make lite work, we all know that, so … Continue reading →

Club Build sessions

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At our January member meeting, Bill Clune, the keeper of the MARS bucket of rocket program, brought in a large box of well loved models in need of repair. A few attendees took home a few corpse’s along with pieces & parts for repair and finishing. Bill reports there are several more boxes of broken models along with quite a few kits that could use building.  Bill asked if anyone would be interested in doing club build sessions in the visitor center during the winter months to prep our bucket … Continue reading →

Central NY Team Rocket Challenge

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Every June the Museum of Science and Technology (The MOST) in Syracuse sponsors the Central New York Rocket Team Challenge.   This is a contest in which middle school and high school teams build and fly mid-power rockets, competing in areas including rocket construction, aesthetic design, egg payload protection, flight performance, apogee prediction and rocketry knowledge.  This year’s competition will be held on Saturday June 2 at the Skytop parking area on Syracuse University’s South Campus.   The Syracuse Rocket Club assists in this event by staffing the launch pads, launch … Continue reading →