ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
Dan sent me email with the following links for those looking to learn about rocketry: Ignition!, by John Clark Published in 1972 by Rutgers University, “IGNITION!”, is the masterpiece of history that covers parallel history and development of rocket propellants
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