1. In a rocket device, an elongated generally tubular shaped housing, a cylindrically shaped propulsion charge in one end of said housing, first means for directing the products of combustion of said charge rearwardly of said housing in a manner so as to impart rotary motion to said device as it is propelled forwardly by said charge, signal means in said housing, second means including a combustible material for igniting said signal means at a predetermined time after said propulsion charge has been ignited, and spacing means located between said first means and said charge for operatively supporting said propulsion charge, said spacing means including an annular shaped transversely extending web section and an axially extending flange located about the outer periphery of said web section and defining symetrical portions on opposite axial ends of said web section, said symetrical portions defining identically formed first and second recess means located on opposite axially spaced ends of said spacing means, one of said recess means cooperatively receiving and radially securing one end of said charge while the opposite symetrical portion selectively locates said charge in preselected axially spaced relationship relative to said first means.

2. In a personnel distress signal for use in a miniature rocketry system having gyroscopic guiding means, a propulsion charge, a time delay fuse, and signaling means, the improvement comprising means including the blended combination of a pressure insensitive chemical composition and a low gas output chemical composition for igniting said propulsion charge in any natural environment, said pressure insensitive chemical composition comprising granules of boron potassium nitrate and said low gas output chemical composition including finely ground boron barium chromate, whereby at low environmental temperatures, the combustion heat requirement is satisfied by said pressure insensitive composition while at high temperatures, the combustion pressures are not increased by the rate of burn of said pressure insensitive composition.

3. A personnel distress signal for use in any natural environment comprising: motor housing means defining first and second axially spaced tubular shaped sections, nozzle means located in one end of one of said first and second sections for imparting a gyroscopic motion to said signal; motor means located in said one section for providing a source of combustible energy to said signal; ignition means for igniting said motor means comprising a pressure insensitive chemical composition and a low gas output chemical composition; signal means connected to said motor housing means for providing a protechnic display, said signal means including a flare cup and a flare pellet located in said cup, said flare pellet including an inward concavely shaped recess, said second section of said housing means extends inwardly in said recess; and time delay fuse means located in the other of said sections for energizing said signal means after a predetermined time interval commencing after ignition of said motor means.