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1930
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1932
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- Gleda (Kane) Estes born in
Clarinda, Iowa.
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1958
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- May - Vern Meets
G. Harry Stine.
Stine demonstrates his Aerobee Hi rocket.
- Estes Industries formed.
- July - Construction of Vern's
rocket motor-making machine Mabel begins.
- December - Vern's rocket motor-making machine Mabel
completed.
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1959
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- January 3 - First delivery of
rocket engines to Model Missiles.
- October 14 - Explosion
seriously wounds Mabel operator Jim Berns.
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1960
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- May - First Estes mail order ad
appears in Mechanix Illustrated magazine.
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1961
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- March -
Catalogue 261 (Denver)
released.
- July - Vern moves to Penrose, CO
and begins construction on buildings for Mabel,
a machine shop and a warehouse.
- August - Variety I of
catalogue
261 (Penrose) released.
- Astron Rocket Society formed.
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1962
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- January - Variety II of
catalogue 261 (Penrose) released.
- March / April - Variety III of
catalogue 261 (Penrose) released.
- June -
Bill Simon hired.
- June - 10,000 copies of
Model Rocket News printed.
- June / July - Variety IV of
catalogue 261 (Penrose) released.
- First annual company picnic.
- December - Variety I of
catalogue 631 released.
- December - Variety II of
catalogue 631 released.
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1963
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1964
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1965
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- January - Monthly sales eclipse
$45,000
- September - Variety I of
catalogue 651 released.
- November -
"Arsenal for
Model Missilemen" article appears in Empire
magazine.
- December - Monthly sales now in
excess of $110,000
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1966
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- March - Variety II of
catalogue
651 released.
- April - First issue of The
Launch Pad published.
- April - The
CAMROC is featured
in Mechanics Illustrated magazine.
- September - Variety III of
catalogue 651 released.
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1967
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- Mabel II completed and
put into use.
- May - Expansion of the Woodshop
underway.
- July - Floor plan for new
building unveiled.
- July -
Catalogue 671 released.
- July - Estes Industries article
in Popular Mechanics magazine.
- September - Estes Industries
article in Model Car Science magazine.
- Estes serving as a Freight Agent
for Continental Trailways bus company.
- December -
Engine Cutting Machine installed in the
Machine Shop.
- Kit
production reached 70,000 annually.
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1968
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- January - Employees and family members tour the
new building.
- February - Estes Industries article in Model
Car Science magazine.
- April -
Catalogue 681 released.
- May 4 - New engine numbering system
introduced.
- Mary Poppins II added to the Wood
Shop.
- Annual circulation of the Estes Model
Rocketry Catalogue reaches 260,000.
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1969
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- March 2 - Over 4,000 guests
attend the Estes Open House event.
- April -
Catalogue 691 released.
- June through August - Over
10,000 people tour the Estes offices
- August - Estes Industries
article in Mechanix Illustrated magazine.
- September 27 - Estes
Industries sold to Damon corporation.
- Original Mabel retired.
- December 31 - Estes
Saturn V
launched at halftime of the Bluebonnet Bowl in the
Houston Astrodome.
- Circulation of Model
Rocket News reaches 250,000.
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1970 - 1973
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1974
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- The K-Kit era ends. Beginning in
1975, the 1200 number system with skill-level
packaging begins.
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