For their first project, the Rocket Society plans to buy and launch a 30-inch scale model of the Navy's Aerobee-Hi research rocket. The missile rises to 1,000 feet at 200 miles per hour and ...

On Aerobee’s first real flight, the rocket flew about 35 miles high. Mission control cut the flight short after about 30 seconds, because Aerobee started to yaw, and they wanted to keep it from ...