Save Our Model Rocket Launches

Please let this group continue launching model rockets. Our hobby has a great safety record (ref: National Association of Rocketry statistics) and has been a big boost to STEM education. I got started in the late 60s along with the Space Race. Model rocketry inspired me to pursue a career in Engineering and I know others in the same situation. Please work with C.R.A.S.H. to provide a safe and interesting educational and fun way to reach youth with model rockets.

This club helps our Denver Metro community by providing a great SAFE outside activity for the family. Let’s not forget HOW MANY scout groups, STEM groups and TARC groups rely on this site! Please reconsider!

I have been a model rocket enthusiast for 45 years - this is the ONLY legal, properly supervised launch site anywhere near Denver - It will impact so many pre-engineers.

60 year Safety Record !! Let them fly !! By restricting these activities you're restricting your country from advancing in areas of major need !! Let them fly !!

Prefect TTRA in Florida

Rocketry is very important for education as well as providing young people with a constructive and wholesome activity. Please keep the launches going.

Great fun and memories. Please don't let it end!

Please reconsider. This is a family fun event and a wonderful introduction to many STEM activities.

I grew up in the 80's and loved rocketry. It lead me to a career as a Mechanical Engineer. Model rocketry teaches skills and lets kids actually build and do things safely under the guidance of responsible adults. This is an activity to promote...not eliminate.

This is such a unique and fun educational opportunity for children. The tought of loosing it is devastating.

The park is being stupid

My son started out launching small rockets. Now he is a mechanical engineer. These experiences are invaluable and very safe if proper precautions are taken. Park officials, I urge you to go out build a rocket and launch it. Then you’ll see first hand how fun and safe it is.

I belong to a club in michigan, the kids along with adults need and enjoy this hobby. Were. Else is there safe family activity for them

Really ... takingaway something that gets children outside and is educational!!! What is wrong with people. It's hard enough keeping kids faces out of their phones, this will just add to it.

I launched model rockets when I was 9 years old back in 1961! Rocketry teaches so many fundamental sciences ideals to kids while making it extremely fun and interesting. Hard to learn so much from any other "hobby" out there! Please allow this to continue to be a great source of learning, fun, and entertainment to the youth as well as others. We MUST keep minds learning and expanding if we are to grow. Check out the history of safety that rocketry has to see that your concerns are baseless (for the most part). One drunken camper can do much more damage than this activity can!

Keep the model rockets flying!

Model rocketry was the answer to stem the dangers of young people who were unsafely fabricating their own rocket engines and ended up blowing limbs and appendages off after the space race began in 1957. There were also tragic deaths; this earned the hobbyists the unsavory nickname of 'basement bombers.' Vernon Estes saw the need of a safe version for hobbyists to learn about rocketry, and formed Estes Industries 60 years ago. Many of the early supporters were also aerospace engineers who agreed with the need to provide a safe alternative, and the very first designs were built by them, using proper techniques while teaching the basics of rocket flight, and in one example, branching out into using trigonometry to be able calculate altitudes attained. Countless technical papers were written over the many decades and freely shared by Estes and others to further knowledge with safety the utmost important factor. It is sad to see the lack of insight or knowledge of some affecting so many hobbyists who carry on in these traditions and adhere to longstanding guidelines starting long ago in Canon City/Penrose, CO. I would urge those park officials to take a step back, do some research, review the NAR guidelines we all follow, and also consider the many educational opportunities that will be lost for so many people of all ages if this ban is allowed to remain in effect. Two days a month, for a total of 6 six hours seems to me to leave plenty of time for others to enjoy all the other activities at Bear Creek Park the remainder of every month.

Let the rockets fly. Let kids learn some real lessons in mathematics, construction, proper use of tools, and having fun outside of a classroom or behind a screen.

There is a global shortage of STEM graduates. Kids need to be inspired to get outside and learn about science. Parks should be looking for ways to increase science activities. I am sure the park management can find ways to overcome their concerns. Keep amateur rocketry alive!

Let them Fly!