Other members of the editorial and business staffs, some of whom held several positions at various times during the years the magazine was published, were Assistant Editors Robert B.

The cover photo shows the launch of a model rocket approximately 2 feet (61 cm) tall with a small camera as the payload.

In July 1969, Publisher George Flynn attended the Southwestern Model Rocket Conference at Eastern New Mexico University.

There he met Air Force Captain Forrest Mims, senior advisor to the Albuquerque Model Rocket Club.

[4] Mims was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque NM with a fellow officer, Ed Roberts.

Several copies of Model Rocketry magazine and the prototype tracking light are on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in their "STARTUP: Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution" exhibit.