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2002 Archived News by National Association of Rocketry
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Thursday, January 31, 2002 |
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ALTOONA, Wisconsin USA -- The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) and the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) are sponsoring a rocketry design challenge for U.S. high school student teams as part of the Centennial of Manned Flight celebration in 2003.
The "Team America Rocketry Challenge" involves designing, building, and flying a multi-stage model rocket (less than 3.3 pounds liftoff weight, 125 grams propellant in NAR certified model rocket motors) that takes two raw eggs and an electronic altimeter as close as possible to exactly 1500 feet. Of course, the rocket must fly safely and the eggs must return undamaged!
Winners will be selected at a flyoff competition, to be held in Northern Virginia in April 2003. The top 5 student teams will receive shares of a total prize pool of approximately $50,000 in savings bonds, and the total prize pool for the winners' sponsoring schools is approximately $9,000 in cash.
For more information, visit the NAR website or the AIA website http://www.aia-aerospace.org/. Entry applications will be posted on the AIA website by April 2002; all teams must go there to enter. Entry fee of $160 will include an Adept A1 electronic altimeter, a copy of the Apogee RockSim 5.0 computer design and flight simulation program, and a copy of G. Harry Stine's Handbook of Model Rocketry. Special NAR membership packages and launch site owner insurance support will be made available to teams that enter.
Event manager for the NAR is Trip Barber, NAR Vice President, who can be reached at
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