Badge, Identification
Object number2018.27.77
Date2008
MediumPaper; Plastic; Metal
Credit LineGift of Jay Apt
DescriptionNARAM-50 name badge.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 3.875 × 3.75 × 0.75 in. (9.8 × 9.5 × 1.9 cm)InscriptionsFront of card has NARAM-50 logo at left with yellow text at center "NARAM / 50", black text around sides "THE PLAINS, VA 50 YEARS IN FLIGHT 1958-2008", yellow text at bottom "OLD ROCKETEER / REUNION 2008", and white text at bottom "ORR".
Front of card has printed black text at right "Jay / Apt / NAR #4554".
Reverse of card has printed black text "Old Rocketeer Reunion / Aurora Flight Sciences / Manassas, VA / July 26, 2008".
Historical NotesNARAM-50 name badge worn by Jay Apt. The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) is the largest U.S. model rocket organization. The NAR holds local and national model rocket competitions. Jay Apt became a NAR member in 1962, and, with his father, and attended his first national championship model rocket meet (NARAM-6) in August 1964 at NASA’s Wallops Island Virginia site. The next month he founded the Pittsburgh model rocket club, the Steel City Section of the NAR. He and teammate Dave Bayard won the national team championship the following August at NARAM-7 in Aberdeen, Maryland. He served as the press officer the following year at NARAM-8 in Clinton County, Ohio. At NARAM-9 in August 1967, he and teammate Jim Davis won the national team championship, where Vice President Hubert Humphry presented the awards. Jay Apt remained active with the NAR and this plaque commemorates his three terms on the NAR Board of Trustees. He attended the 50th National Association of Rocketry Annual Meet (NARAM-50) in Manassas, Virginia in August 2008, including a reunion of long-standing members held at the facilities of Aurora Flight Sciences at the Manassas Airport. Aurora was founded by long-standing NAR member and MIT graduate John Langford and later acquired by Boeing.
Previous owner
Dr. Jerome Apt III
Related institution
National Association of Rocketry
Related institution
Aurora Flight Sciences
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c. 2011
2000-2004
1931-1957