Washington Aerospace Club Announces Fire in the Sky 2005 Regional Rocket Launch

Released on = April 18, 2005, 9:01 pm

Press Release Author = Andrew MacMillen

Industry = Aerospace

Press Release Summary = The public is cordially invited to the region's premiere regional rocketry launch during the Memorial Day weekend in Mansfield, Washington. Bring your own rockets to sharpen your flying skills or simply watch some of the Pacific Northwest’s best rocketeers flying their rockets up to 17,000 feet above the ground at speeds well over Mach 1!

Press Release Body = The public is cordially invited to the Pacific NW’s premiere regional rocketry launch to kick off the rocket flying season during the Memorial
Day weekend. Each year rocketeers from around the region and points more distant gather here in Mansfield, Washington to fly rockets ranging from model to very large high power rockets. Bring your own rockets to sharpen your flying skills here or
simply watch some of the Pacific Northwest’s best rocketeers at work flying their rockets up to 17,000 feet above the ground at speeds well over Mach 1!

In addition to individual rocket flying there will be several other activities such as:
- NAR-certified model rocket contests
- Can-loft contest
- Night rocketry launch
- Rocket building workshop for the Douglas County youth
- Astronomy classes and star gazing with telescopes sponsored by the Tacoma
Astronomical Society and taught by Joe Witherspoon
- BalloonSat/PongSat Workshop: Learn to build and fly a payload via weather balloon to 100,000 feet with recovery sponsored by the Treasure Valley Near Space Program and taught by Paul Verhage
- Raffle prizes

Come on out to Mansfield for a great weekend of rocketry – Fire In The Sky 2005!

Web Site = http://www.washingtonaerospace.org/fits2005.php

Contact Details = 360.779.4097