NHS students to build a suborbital rocket for NASA

24 Feb 2022


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A team of Newcastle High School students is one of 57 school teams who won in the NASA TechRise Student Challenge. This challenge gives students the opportunity to “build experiments that will autonomously operate and collect data from the edge of space aboard a suborbital rocket or a high-altitude balloon test flight,” according to a press release announcing the honor. 

“The winning teams will each receive $1,500 to build their experiments and an assigned spot to test them on NASA-sponsored suborbital rocket flights operated by Blue Origin or UP Aerospace, or a high-altitude balloon flight from Raven Aerostar,” the press release also stated. 

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