NASA Student Rocketry Challenge w/ Onboard Payloads

 Display of Tripoli Rocketry Association rockets in front of Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science (Allegheny Square Plaza), 1984 June 21
(Source: Francis G. Graham, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Kent State University)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Organizers of the NASA Student Launch Projects have announced the 57 student teams whose inventive creations will soar skyward in April during the space agency's 2012-13 rocketry challenge.

Representing schools in 26 states around the country, participating teams each will design and build a large, high-powered rocket, complete with a working science or engineering payload and capable of flying to the target altitude of 1 mile. NASA created the rocketry challenge to encourage young people to pursue careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

More - Link >>> http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/nov/HQ_12-393_SLI_Challenges.html

Source: NASA.

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