Some 250 student participants and approximately 500 spectators crowded the viewing area at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Tooele County, Utah, May 17 for the “launchfest” that concluded the 2013-2014 NASA Student Launch rocketry competition. Sixteen student teams from 15 states launched rockets of their own design, complete with three working science and engineering payloads apiece. The annual NASA education event is organized by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and sponsored by ATK Aerospace Group of Magna, Utah. The grand-prize-winning school team will be named by NASA and ATK in late May. Visit https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/studentlaunch/home/index.html for more images and information about the event.
Image credit: MSFC/Dusty Hood