Cedar City News | ‘Where ideas will literally take flight’: RCS Rocket Motor Components hosts grand opening in Cedar City

By Jeff Richards

The recent grand opening of RCS Rocket Motor Components’ new facility in Cedar City brought out plenty of VIPs, including the governor, all of whom expressed optimism and pride in what this endeavor could mean.

The program’s featured guest speakers included Lee Piester, founder of Centuri Engineering, who spoke about the early days of hobby rocketry and the development of composite propellant motors, and Bob Sanford, who designed the highly popular AeroTech Initiator model rocket, a giant replica of which stands outside the new RCS facility.

Another guest speaker was Jonathan Freedman, president and CEO of World Trade Center Utah and a consul to Ukraine, who spoke of Cedar City’s important role in the aerospace industry.

“Cedar City has always been known as a technology and innovation hub and manufacturing community, from the early days of the iron mine,” Freedman said. “Thank you so much for your leadership in showing the very best that comes from Utah.”