Spring Grove Rockets live up to their name with best-ever launch in NASA competition
The Spring Grove Area High School Rocketry Team made history at the NASA Student Launch competition in Huntsville, Alabama this past weekend, according to a press release from the school district.
The team launched their 27-pound, 8-foot-tall rocket to meet their exact goal target of 4,500 feet, winning the National Target Altitude Award.
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"This is the best flight in the entire 23-year history of the competition. No high school or college team has ever had a perfect flight," the release said.
The SGAHS Rocketry Team students are Alex Fiorillo, Dylan Tichy, Max Trimmer, Wyatt Amspacher, Sage Dewall, Haley Hake, and Eli Hoke. Their team adviser is physics teacher Brian Hastings.
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Nearly 800 students from universities, high schools and middle schools launched high-powered amateur rockets and scientific payloads to an altitude between 3,500 and 6,000 feet, before safely parachuting back to Earth. NASA’s annual rocket competition hosts more than 50 teams from 21 states and Puerto Rico, the release says.
This article originally appeared on Hanover Evening Sun: Spring Grove Rocketry Team wins NASA competition
