NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Daniel Kanigan
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
256/544-0034

Photo release: 07-049


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Students watch as a rocket takes to the skies Saturday, April 28, as part of NASA's Student Launch Initiative. For the students – 15 middle and high school teams from 12 states – the launch culminated a school year of work designing innovative rockets. The launch was the high point, literally, of three days of events sponsored and hosted by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (NASA/MSFC/D. Higgenbotham)


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A student-designed rocket takes to the skies Saturday, April 28, as part of NASA's Student Launch Initiative – a competition that challenges student teams to design, build and test a rocket; prepare a scientific payload to ride on board; post a Web site of their own design that showcases their work; and present formal project reviews to a panel of NASA engineers. The Student Launch Initiative is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., in partnership with the Boeing Company and the Huntsville Area Rocketry Association. (NASA/MSFC/D. Higgenbotham)


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