Electronics Illustrated article that continued over several issues, beginning in July 1958. Parkin described how to prepare the propellant mixture by using an electric frying pan as a heat source for the melting operation. This article was reprinted in Parkin's book, The Rocket Handbook for Amateurs, which was published in 1959. Parkin's article contributed to the increasing popularity of the rocket candy propellant among amateur rocket groups beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sugar-fueled rockets have been used as crude weapons of war, such as during the attacks on Israel by Hamas during 2000-2003. The Sugar Shot to Space program (SS2S) was formed with the goal "to loft a rocket powered by a 'sugar propellant' into space" equivalent to in altitude. The Double Sugar Shot rocket will reach , or one third of the goal altitude. The first Mini Sugar Shot rocket, a single-stage dual-pulse design motor prototype of the Extreme Sugar Shot rocket, reached an altitude of before a catastrophic motor malfunction occurred; contact with the second Mini Sugar Shot rocket was lost at an altitude of nearly going in excess of Mach 1. In 2017 Rick Maschek and Chris Covany of the SS2S team successfully launched their 150mm potassium nitrate sorbitol propellant rocket at over Mach 2.5 and was followed later that same year by Rick and Eric Beckner of the SS2S team with the first of two successful 300mm KNSB motor static motor tests, largest 'sugar' motors ever, at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) facility showing large 'sugar' motors could be made. The Extreme Sugar Shot rocket, now planned as a conventional 2-stage rocket design and the rocket expected to meet the goal of entering space, has not yet been completed. See also Black powder rocket motor References External links Amateur Rocketry web page in Spanish, featuring sorbitol (candy) rockets and rocket motors. Richard Nakka's Experimental Rocketry Web Site . Recrystallized Rocketry Model rocketry Rocket propellants Rocket propulsion Solid-fuel rockets Solid fuels Amateur rocketry