Quest is very proud of its heritage. Quest’s President Bill Stine is the son of G. Harry Stine who founded the hobby of model rocketry in 1957.

G. Harry Stine Personal Memoirs – The formative years of model rocketry, 1957-1962

First time in print anywhere!
G. Harry documented much of what happened in the early days long before he penned this fascinating account of the birth of a hobby.
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The “Carlisle Letters”

The entire chain of correspondence between Orville Carlisle and G. Harry Stine – This is the “true” record of the birth of model rocketry, the formation of the first model rocket company Model Missiles, Inc. and the formation of the Model Missile Association (later to become the National Association of Rocketry) Hundreds of letters that will engage you as the two visionaries created what we know today as model rocketry.Click on the Document picture to access the letters.

Photo Library

An incredible collection of B&W pictures of the early days from the Stine Archives. Click Here

MMI Video

16mm film shot by G. Harry Stine in 1958 at the Hogback Rocket Range just outside Denver. NOTE: This is a 50MB file and requires a MPEG4 player like QuickTime.

Biographical Short

Follow the link associated with the picture below to a brief biographical film
regarding the 'Paying Forward' philisophy that G. Harry Stine lived his life by.

Reminisces of the early days of model rocketry

By Barbara K. Stine, NAR#17

A treasure of little known background about G. Harry and his family life.