Apogee model-rocket kits.

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Formerly with Estes Industries in Penrose, Tim Van Milligan bought model-rocket manufacturer/retailer Apogee Components in 1994 and moved it from Minnesota to Colorado.

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"First I was in my house, then another house," he says. In 1999, the onetime aeronautical engineer moved Apogee into its first commercial building in Colorado Springs. Now he's on his third "progressively larger" location as Apogee continues to make and sell model-rocket kits, model-rocket simulation software, model-rocket altimeters, and other model-rocket components.

The company's top seller is virtual - the aforementioned RockSim software - while Apogee's kits are more visceral, ranging from the...

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