Welcome to Meatball Rocketry!
These are the rocketry pages of Josh and Jess Tschirhart. We specialize in building and flying scale models of rocket vehicles for NAR competition. You will find descriptions and photos of our various Scale Model projects, articles about Research and Development projects and model design, dimensioned scale data and photos of real rocket hardware, as well as a portfolio of 3D CAD models and related 2D design projects. Enjoy!
Latest News/Blog
- Projects in 2013 01/15/2013There are several projects that we are working on this year; we hope it will be a productive one: Drawing Projects Nike-Tomahawk Data Project. Ever since 2004 when Dave Fitch met with Don Larson, an “old rocketeer” from NAR competitions past, Dave and I have been on-and-off sorting through Don’s collection of data regarding Nike-Tomahawk flight 18.26 ...
- Shapeways Black Friday Sale 11/23/2012Shapeways is offering two options for Black Friday with 20% off of orders over $75 OR Free Worldwide Shipping on orders of any value. For 20% off orders of $75 or more, please enter tdzmu at checkout OR for free worldwide shipping on orders of any value, enter v9v7r Also, as of this morning, our nose cone prices ...
- George’s Little Joe II Pages 09/10/2012If you’ve never visited George Gassaway’s site, be sure to check it out. There is a ton of useful and interesting stuff there including his award-winning Space Shuttle project, as well as his Little Joe II model projects and comprehensive scale data. Actually, there seems to be a ton of Little Joe II information that ...
- Videos Uploaded 7/15/12 07/15/2012I finally got around to transferring some analog videos to digital recently, so I went ahead and uploaded much of the rocketry-related content to YouTube, including several Saturn I test flights (2003-2005) and the related PVC Spider R&D tests. I even added video from the Dyna-Soar/Titan I flight (2005) and the Black Brant XII (2005). http://www.youtube.com/user/Drumn4J I ...
