• BODY & STRUCTURAL SUPPLIES: This creative STEM kit for home or classroom projects comes packed with over 100 rocket-building parts, including BT-5, BT-20, BT-50, BT-55, and BT-60 18-inch body tubes (2 each). It also comes with assorted engine-mount tubes, centering rings, tube couplers, launch lugs, engine hooks and retainers, engine blocks, plastic nose cones, nose-cone inserts, a clear payload section, wood fin sheets with templates, and tube transitions.
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• LAUNCH & RECOVERY SUPPLIES: The kit also provides recovery and launch parts, such as parachutes, streamers, 1/8- and 1/4-inch shock cords with mounts, and clay for nose-cone weight. These parts ensure precision flights and safe landings for open-air experiments.
• Encourages creativity, hands-on engineering, and custom rocket design (launch equipment and engines sold separately)
• Features multiple body tube sizes (BT-5, BT-20, BT-50, BT-55, BT-60), parachutes, streamers, nose cones, and fin materials

The Estes 1980 Designers Special kit offers over 100 rocket-building parts, giving intermediate rocketeers everything needed to create up to 8 unique rockets, from nose cones and parachutes to a model-rocket technical manual. This set makes an ideal choice for STEM learning and creative outdoor play.

Powered by your imagination, this intermediate-level kit helps you explore your own creativity. With all the parts at your disposal, you can customize and build little rockets that are uniquely yours. The parts are designed for easy assembly, offering a cool hands-on learning activity for anyone looking to improve their model-building and finishing skills.

The Designers Special Kit is designed for ages 10+, with adult supervision recommended for those under 12 years old. It includes: BT-5, BT-20, BT-50, BT-55, and BT-60 18-inch body tubes (2 each), assorted engine-mount tubes, assorted laser-cut centering rings, assorted green centering rings, tube couplers for all body-tube sizes, parachutes and streamers, launch lugs, engine hooks, engine-hook retainer rings, engine blocks, 1/8- and 1/4-inch shock cords, shock-cord mounts, wood, sheets for making fins, fin templates, tube transitions, plastic nose cones, nose-cone inserts, clay for nose-cone weight, and a clear payload section. Always follow the NAR (National Association of Rocketry) model-rocket safety code during rocket kit operations.

Estes rocket kits are built from the highest-quality components and designed around the unforgettable experience of pressing launch. Our hobby and STEM educational products range across all skill levels, interests, and power levels. Unleash the space dreamer and science enthusiast in you with an Estes model rocket! From the Manufacturer For the designer in all of us, this one is for you. At a very reasonable price, everyone can be a rocket scientist now. You are assured hours of designing and building fun with the Designers Special. Estes model rocketry is recommended for ages 10 and up with adult supervision for those under 12. Unless otherwise specified, all models require assembly. Tools, construction and finishing supplies sold separately. In order to launch, a launch system, model rocket engines, igniters and recovery wadding are required - sold separately-unless otherwise specified.