{"id":9252,"date":"2006-10-16T02:07:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T02:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2006-10-16T02:07:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T02:07:31","slug":"high-powered-rocketry-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9252","title":{"rendered":"High-Powered Rocketry in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/rocketNYT.jpg\">The New York Times had one of those obligatory &#8220;oh those loveable geeks and their really big rockets&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/14\/science\/14rocket.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ei=5070&#038;en=5c899db5a0cd71b2&#038;ex=1161489600&#038;emc=eta1\" target=\"new\">stories<\/a> that show up in each major daily every few years. The piece includes some of the usual suspects, including &#8220;Rocketman,&#8221; Ky Michaelson, the guy I profiled in MAKE Vol 5. <\/p>\n<p> The article does talk about how, post-911, high-powered rocketry has run afoul of the Feds because the &#8220;ammonium perchlorate composite&#8221; (APC) used in rocket motors is considered an explosive now (even though it doesn&#8217;t actually explode, it &#8220;deflagrates.&#8221; Think: road flare). High-powered rocket enthusiasts are afraid that requiring low-explosives permits, which require background checks, will hamper the growth of the hobby. As Ken Good, president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripoli.org\/\" target=\"new\">Tripoli Rocketry Association<\/a>, puts it in the piece: &#8220;If I was an 18-year-old and told my mom I needed a low explosives permit and that an A.T.F. agent would come to my house, she\u2019d say, Why don\u2019t you just continue with your guitar lessons?\u201d <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/rocketNYC21.jpg\">You can view the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripoli.org\/documents\/batfe\/batfe.shtml\" target=\"new\">ATF lawsuit documents<\/a> on Tripoli&#8217;s site (Tripoli and the venerable NAR (National Association of Rocketry) have filed a Civil Action suit against the ATF). <\/p>\n<p> <i>Thanks, Kate!<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times had one of those obligatory &#8220;oh those loveable geeks and their really big rockets&#8221; stories that show up in each major daily every few years. The piece includes some of the usual suspects, including &#8220;Rocketman,&#8221; Ky Michaelson, the guy I profiled in MAKE Vol 5. The article does talk about how, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High-Powered Rocketry in the New York Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}