K12> "ALL SYSTEMS GO" FOR STUDENT ROCKETRY CHALLENGE
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- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 08:39:41 -0500
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Subject: "ALL SYSTEMS GO" FOR STUDENT ROCKETRY CHALLENGE
Gretchen Cook-Anderson
Headquarters, Washington May 6, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-0836)
Jerry Berg
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-0034)
RELEASE: 03-158
"ALL SYSTEMS GO" FOR STUDENT ROCKETRY CHALLENGE
More than 1,000 students, from 100 high schools in 36
states and Washington, are gathering in The Plains, Va., to
compete in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC).
The inaugural event, May 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT,
at Great Meadows racetrack, offers student teams awards
worth $59,000. Student teams must build a two-stage rocket,
that can fly to at least 1,500 feet, release a payload of
two raw eggs, and parachute the eggs back to Earth unbroken,
to win the event.
The world's largest model rocket contest is a national
amateur competition for high school students. The contest
resulted from a partnership between NASA and TARC sponsors,
the Aerospace Industries Association and the National
Association of Rocketry.
The event is being held in conjunction with the national
yearlong Centennial of Flight celebration, which
commemorates the Wright Brothers historic, first successful
powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Dec. 17, 1903.
Speakers and participants at TARC include: NASA
Administrator Sean O'Keefe; U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.);
Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC),
Huntsville, Ala., Art Stephenson; and U.S. Centennial of
Flight Commission Chairman and Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum, Washington, Director J.R. (Jack) Dailey.
NASA engineer and author Homer Hickam, whose book inspired
the movie "October Sky" and, Jay Apt, a veteran NASA
astronaut, who flew four times as a Space Shuttle mission
specialist, are also attending. Apt will be a range-safety
officer for the competition.
An original field of entrants, nearly 900 high school teams
and more than 9,000 students, was narrowed during regional
fly-offs to the top 100 teams. The top 10 teams will be
eligible to submit proposals to participate in the 2004
Student Launch Initiative (SLI) at the MSFC.
The SLI, now in its third year, is an educational program to
motivate students toward careers in science, math and
engineering. Under the guidance of MSFC engineers and
mentors, SLI lets high school student teams experience
hands-on, practical aerospace and engineering activities.
The student teams build reusable launch vehicles, which
carry a science experiment payload up to an altitude of one
mile. Up to three proposals will be selected to participate
in the SLI. Finalists will also be eligible to receive an
invitation to attend Space Camp at the U.S. Space ? Rocket
Center in Huntsville.
In July a faculty member from each of the top 25 TARC teams
will be invited to the Initiative Workshop at MSFC. They
will attend classes on student rocketry with NASA scientists
and tour research facilities.
The futuristic Starship 2040 traveling exhibit, designed to
share NASA's vision of what future commercial space flight
might be like, will be at the TARC and open to visitors. The
exhibit showcases futuristic propulsion and space science
technologies in development by NASA and its partners. The
exhibit demonstrates the real-world challenges of achieving
routine travel beyond Earth orbit, and portrays what space
travel may be like in 2040.
For information about the Team America Rocket Challenge, the
Student Launch Initiative or Starship 2040, on the Internet,
visit:
http://www.rocketcontest.org
http://education.msfc.nasa.gov/sli
http://www.starship2040.com
For more information about NASA on the Internet, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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