rocketryn.

1875 Dublin Univ. Mag. May 517/1 All the glow and glitter of their literary pyrotechny. In the gorgeous displays and magnificent effects of these professors of rocketry and red fire, their credulous audience [etc.].

1930 G. E. Pendray in Bull. Amer. Interplanetary Soc. Nov.–Dec. 4 The practical work of getting a liquid-fuel rocket actually into the air was a contribution of America's, as were the three most fundamental achievements of modern rocketry.

1943 C. S. Lewis Perelandra vi. 91 He was a man obsessed with the idea which is..circulating all over our planet in obscure works of ‘scientifiction’, in little Interplanetary Societies and Rocketry Clubs.

1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids ii. 30 Sustained research in rocketry had at last succeeded in attaining one of its objectives. It had sent up a missile which stayed up.

1958 Sunday Times 14 Sept. 7/4 His [sc. Thomas Wolfe's] absurd rocketry about great America, decadent Europe and so on.

1977 Daily Tel. 28 July 1/6 The small spaceport at Kagoshima..looked more like a station for amateur rocketry than a serious rival to Cape Canaveral.

1989 J. Irving Prayer for Owen Meany ix. 508 Every Fourth of July the members who knew their rocketry and bombs set up the fireworks on the docks of the academy boathouse.

2006 G. D. J. Harper 50 Model Rocket Projects iii. 26/2 There are many instances in model rocketry where plastic parts need to be joined.