Andover Central High students Trey Black and Adam Jacobson stepped to the launch pad Saturday with two carefully crafted pop-bottle rockets. The aspiring scientists who went before them used ...

GeekDad reader Andy Rollins has sent along the link to this great story about Ken Schellenberg, an electrical engineer and obvious Geeky Dad, who has made it his goal to design an launch a bottle ...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. – Mr. Widget wants to go to space. Ken Schellenberg, who has adopted the alter-ego on his company website, wants to put a simple but highly engineered bottle rocket into orbit.

Mr. Schellenberg's two-stage model is easily capable of reaching altitudes of well over 200 metres. Several years ago, one of his "toy" rockets - actually a Kevlar-reinforced, experimental, single ...

Allison Flicker learns about Newton's Third Law on this week's episode of Extreme Science. Radical Rick show you how to make your own Pop Bottle Water Rocket launcher.

Andover Central High students Trey Black and Adam Jacobson stepped to the launch pad Saturday with two carefully crafted pop-bottle rockets. The aspiring scientists who went before them used ...

You may wonder what to do with an old plastic water bottle. Sure, you could just drop it in the recycle bin -- but it could also be “upcycled” into a rocket like Ben Cusick’s model ...

The rocket, built of cardboard and wrapping paper roll framing, can accommodate a crew of two astronauts. It is complete with two seats, multiple viewing bottle cap port holes and pop bottle ...

Building a rocket may seem like a daunting task, especially if you don't know where to start. Fortunately, we've found four of the best homemade designs.