Luc Bausch formed AeroRacers to produce a line of toys designed to encourage children's creativity. Born in Luxembourg, and a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, Bausch taught middle school science in California. Teaching fifth and sixth graders at an ...
Aerospace Vehicles, Inc., Box 77E, Mineral Point, Wisconsin 53565
Mike Bergenske started AVI from the remains of MPC's model rocket business.
AVI introduced the Mini-Jet line of 13mm (by 55m) rocket motors.
Founded by Rober Ellis, Ellis Mountain manufactured rocket motors.
After a fire destroyed AeroTech's manufacturing facilities in October of 2001, Ellis Mountain manufactured motors for Aerotech after a fire destroyed the AeroTech manufacturing facilities in October of 2001 until Aerotech ...
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.
Chris Pearson and Matt Steele formed North Coast Rocketry (NCR) in the mid-1980s to market a line of high-power rocket kits and other rocketry products. The company added Dan Kafun as a partner in 1989.
In addition to kits, NCR sold Aerotech and Vulcan rocket motors. NCR also ...
Quasar One Custom Rockets was a small rocketry company started by Mike Sunseri in Elk Grove, California in the early 2000s. By 2009 they were being sold through Apogee Rockets, one of the biggest retail rocketry names around. Quasar One produced 16 kits of original design as well as selling kits ...
John Rahkonen started Rocket Technology Corp in the early 1960s in Ogden, Utah. The company sold a plastic flying model kit of the German V-2 and planned to produce model rocket motors, including, perhaps, composite motors based on Rahkonen's experience working at Thiokol.
Carl McLawhorn founded Semroc Astronautics Corporation in his college dorm at North Carolina State University in November, 1967. Semroc produced a line of model rocket kits and motors. Semroc grew to a company with twenty-five full-time employees working at two facilities. The company's ...
Started by Patrick and Sandra Spence in 1995, Stellar Dimensions produced a unique line of rocket kits with square bodies.
Stellar Dimensions was based in Enumclaw, Washington.
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