{"id":1669,"date":"2010-12-13T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2010-12-14T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:46:29","slug":"1970-rocket-launch-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/1970-rocket-launch-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"1970 rocket launch remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/san-marcos\/article_06e42d14-187b-5fc1-a8e4-c2632dc43af1.html\"><em>North County Times<\/em><\/a> recently published an article describing how the efforts of alumni Rick Crockett (&#8217;72) and Jeff Bytof (&#8217;72) led to the legalization of model rockets in California. The article also mentions former San Dieguito Rocket Club Advisor Orville Karge.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt wasn&#8217;t exactly the Wright Brothers&#8217; flight at Kitty Hawk or the moon landing, but a handful of San Dieguito High school students made their mark in aviation history 40 years ago when they launched the first legal model rocket in California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to have not only the state fire marshal&#8217;s permission, but the fire chief&#8217;s,&#8221; Rick Crockett, 55, said about the Nov. 28, 1970, launch in San Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>The launch by Crockett and other San Dieguito High students was the first of a two-year series of launches used to prove the rocket engines were safe, leading eventually to their legalization in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AR\"><em>San Dieguito students helped legalize hobby with launch 40 years ago: Model rocket tests in San Marcos led to law change, safer conditions<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/san-marcos\/article_06e42d14-187b-5fc1-a8e4-c2632dc43af1.html\"><em>North County Times<\/em><\/a>, December 3, 2010<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North County Times recently published an article describing how the efforts of alumni Rick Crockett (&#8217;72) and Jeff Bytof (&#8217;72) led to the legalization of model rockets in California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}