[RKDinOKC]

When I was a kid we had Estes and a hobby shop one mile from home that was full of nothing but all kinds of model rocket stuff.

At 8 years old was mowing neighbots yards and had lots of money for an eigth year old to by rocketry stuff.

Coolest was one that carried a glider up that looked kinda like the space shuttle (before they had a space shuttle).
You had to run a delayed chute engine so it could arc over launching the glider before popping the chute.
The only problem is you had to track both the rocket and the glider down.

Had a pirated AppleII program that was a really cool robot chem lab. You could mix and heat anything. If you mixed stuff that would explode, it would. Great fun playing will it fizzle, foam, catch fire, or explode.