By Paul Guzzo, University Communications and Marketing
After nearly a decade of setbacks and near-misses, the OB体育官网鈥檚 student rocket team successfully completed NASA鈥檚 prestigious Student Launch Competition. Competing against dozens of teams from across the country, USF鈥檚 Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry team sent their model rocket up more than 4,000 feet while transmitting data 鈥� proving that if it were a real space mission, an astronaut would have survived.
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It was the first time in at least eight years