European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stripes youngsters have a blast by Henry Sloff writer rocketry has travelled a Long Way in a Short the space age was launched with russian first sputnik in along with it exploded the excitement and desire among science minded boys and girls to loin the space race and build their own these fledglings used Kitchen match Carbon dioxide water electrical drugstore chemicals and Garden and made almost every mistake since Der was Model rocketry was the answer for these progressive a major maker of rockets and their Estes of pen says three million of the company engines have been fired the which arc not toys but a space age educational do nut con Tain any substantial Metal they Are made of Balsa a re covery system to bring them Hack to Earth safely and and a tubular since its Model rocketry has not Only boomed into National prominence As a Hobby but catapulted into 10 foreign postal regulation permit rocket on Al genes to be shipped through finns o business with americans and their families in Europe As lung As the shipment docs not go through foreign postal services at Devreux and Dre tix air bases in Young americans have Stob Conli Nitcy on Paga tracking gear and phone communication equipment add realism la rocketeer igniter hooked to camera carry ing two Ilage Delta lust fare thousandth second photo freezes big Bertha during August 1963 the stars and stripes ii