COCOA BEACH, Florida – Ronald D. Jones, the President and Chief Technology
Officer for Rocket Crafters, Inc. will be the keynote speaker at the
Missile, Space and Range Pioneers Fall Banquet set for Friday November 16, 2012 at the Hilton in Cocoa Beach, Florida
The
Fall Banquet (also known as the Rocket Reunion) will include a sit down
dinner and cash bar. After dinner, Ron will explain Rocket Crafters’
move to Space
Coast Regional Airport and their next-generation hybrid rocket motors,
dual propulsion jet/rocket aircraft and suborbital spacecraft.
In
addition, two Florida Tech students teams funded by the MSRP will
present their projects for the 2012-2013 school year.
Social hour starts at 6 p.m.
and dinner will be served at 7 p.m. The
event is open to the public and provides an opportunity to meet
Space Pioneers up-close and learn firsthand about space projects and
history.
Seating is limited and tickets are available online at
http://www.rocketreunion.com/
The
Missile, Range and Space Pioneers (MSRP) is a non-profit, Space Coast
organization that actively provides mentoring and financial support to
science and engineering students
at area universities.
Formed in 1966, the organization provides many
opportunities for people involved in missile, space, and range
activities at Cape Canaveral, Florida and Kennedy Space Center, Florida to actively
maintain acquaintances with each other and the community.
There are approximately 1,000 missile, range and space workers, former
workers, and advocates on the rolls of the Pioneers.
For more information or to purchase your tickets for the Rocket Reunion Fall Banquet online at
http://www.rocketreunion.com/
1 comment:
I've been looking over the web site for this operation at rocketcrafters.com, and it has some interesting issues which do not inspire confidence. If you visit their "partners" page and read closely, you will find that these are just companies that they pay as consultants --not exactly partners. If you visit the "spacecraft" page on their site, you will find some spaceplane graphics. By implication, this is their design, right? Indeed, one of these images is also used on their web site's home page. Yet these graphics (at least two of the images) depict Norman LaFave's "Cosmos Mariner": http://www.astronautix.com/craft/cosriner.htm. That space plane was a notional design from 2004 that never left the drawing board. There is also an image of a pilot under the canopy of a jet aircraft. It turns out that it's a random image of a "Viperjet" which has nothing to do with "Rocket Crafters" (here's the same image used in an ebay auction: http://tinyurl.com/9dd34nk). Similarly, if you visit their "propellants" page, you will see a photo of some industrial plumbing (two white tanks, a yellow tank, and a control panel) which may create the impression that they are actually producing rocket fuel. But this latter photo is taken from a web site detailing the services of a company called SS Gas Lab in Delhi, India. Maybe their web site was created by a company located in India? Next if you visit their "defense systems" page, there is a graphic of a rocket launching which is clearly a slight edit of an image from yet another web site here: http://www.dynetics.com/images/aerospacehardware.jpg. A web site crafted from other people's artwork could be just amateurish web design. Or it could be an indication that this company is much less than they claim... As far as I have been able to determine, they have no physical facilities either. Their sole address is a post office box in Eden, Utah.
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