One just launched the world’s biggest rocket, with mixed success. The other makes small model rockets for hobbyists, and it’s stockpiling supplies ahead of Trump’s tariffs.

That’s pushing businesses to take action. Take Estes Rockets, based in Penrose, Colorado. The company got its start during the space race in the 1950s. It’s now the country’s biggest ...

educational and toy industries with the future of spaceflight. The product line, branded Estes and New Glenn , will include highly detailed scale models, functional model rockets for hobbyists ...

Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. This is a flying Saros rocket model built by Estes Industries in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown.The model has ...

This is an unassembled Astron Nighthawk flying rocket model built by Estes Industries. The model has a pasteboard and plastic body, balsa nosecone and fins, and a cloth streamer. A solid propellant ...

Estes Industries, which specializes in model rockets, was awarded nearly $20,000 to help with HVAC efficiency. Siccardo says that all of the projects combined could be worth around $20 million ...