College students who collaborated on a rocket are flying high after getting together to launch it, even if the results fell a bit short
Last year, some college kids who barely knew one other had a wild notion to try to launch their own rockets into space. Then, on Friday and Saturday, something even wilder happened: They were actually in New Mexico watching their rockets blast off.
Operation Space, the group of students from across the country who had never met when they decided to build a rocket, had every reason to believe their project would fizzle. They had to scrounge for parts. They ran into a comical series of errors when they first tried to assemble...
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