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Continual
Events Include:
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SRA hosts
University project launches and NASA SLI Teams annually.
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SRA hosts
High School TARC Teams annually.
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SRA
provides rocketry instruction, displays and
launches for Middle and Grade Schools annually.
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SRA hosts
youth groups at local launches throughout the year.
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MR,
LPR and HPR static displays at the Vero Beach airshow annually.
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MR,
LPR and HPR static displays at the KSC All-American Picnic annually.
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Special
Highlights Include:
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SRA
was the technical advisor and conducted rocket launches for the Ford
Focus Rally America show broadcast on HULA (February 2011)
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Spaceport
Rocketry Association incorporated as a not for profit organization on
September 22, 2010
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SRA
and NEFAR members launch 1/6 scale Explorer 1 to commemorate 50th anniversary (January 2008)
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Spaceport
Rocketry Association supports Space Visions Congress 2007 with a
static display and "build and take" (April 2007)
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Spaceport
Rocketry Association conducts demo launch for the students of the
local SEARCH mentor program (May 2006)
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Spaceport
Rocketry Association featured in Florida
Today article (March 2006)
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Demonstration
launches and static display at the St Lucie County Wings and Wheels
2005 (May 2005)
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Supported
NASA Safety Day at KSC in 2004 with two HPR displays
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Supported
the Patrick AFB Open House with displays and HPR launches in 2003
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Supported
NASA Safety Day at KSC in 2003 with HPR displays
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Supported
the Leesburg Public Library with a display, educational class on
rocketry and a build and take with an opportunity for each child to
launch their rocket.
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Celebrated
its 30th anniversary in 2003
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Supported
the Patrick AFB Open House with displays and HPR launches in 1999 and
2001
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Performed
a 1997 model rocket launch demo for the Lockheed Martin Company Picnic
(our sixth time performing a demo at their company picnic!)
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Performed
a 1997 model rocket launch demo at Titusville's Space Park
commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first Saturn V launch
vehicle test
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Performed
a 1996 model rocket launch demo at Titusville's Space Park
commemorating the Mercury Astronauts with special guest astronauts
Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper
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Assisted
with the launch preparations for the 1996 Spaceweek Explorer, a 14.5
foot tall, 11 inch diameter rocket designed for show use at Central
Florida Theme Park Attractions
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Performed
a model rocket launch demo at the KSC Visitor's Center in January
1996, which was taped for the SCI-FI channel's TV Show
"SPACE"
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Helped
University High School build its Launch Control Center, a 12 position
launch control system in a renovated school bus
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Assisted
Orlando's University High School with their 1994 Shuttle Explorer
Launch with Astronaut Robert Crippen as guest launching officer, the
1995 Shuttle Launch with KSC Launch Control Officer Bob Sieck as guest
launching officer, and a special space tribute launch of the Shuttle
Explorer at Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center during Spaceweek 1995
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Performed
three 1992 International Space Year launch demonstration events
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Received
national recognition for our 1991 30th Anniversary Mercury-Redstone
Commemoration Launch with Astronaut Alan Shepard as the guest
launching officer
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Assisted
with the 1992 World Space Modeling Championships (WSMC) held in
Brevard County
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Hosted the national model rocketry championships (NARAM)
(as the Orange Rocketeers) held at Orlando in 1975 and at
Kissimmee in 1982
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Performed
launch demonstrations at the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy
Space Center (KSC) during the 1976 Bicentennial Celebration, the
Visitor's Center at KSC, the John Young Science Center in Orlando, and
many Central Florida area public schools
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