Happy New Year, everyone! In 2022, our team successfully passed all the milestones of the NASA Student Launch Program 2021-22, and also won the national 8th place trophy in the American Rocketry Challenge (TARC)! The year of 2023 is going to be another exciting year for our NASA SL team! For the 2022-23 season, we’re designing and conducting a payload experiment on earthworms in our high-powered rocket that will fly up to 4,200 feet. Great teamwork! #nasastudentlaunch #nasa #rocket #stem
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We Made It!
Our hearts were bursting with pride and gratitude when our NASA SL rocket soared to the sky! Despite the gusty wind as strong as 20 mph in the Mojave Desert, our NASA SL team’s official launch today was very successful. Here is a 2-min short video about the launch: https://youtu.be/gkUtUy3LYHM. A full-length version of the video will be ready in a few days. Great teamwork! #nasastudentlaunch #nasa #rocket #stem
Vote Our Team Rocket for the Best-Looking Rocket!
Please vote our team rocket for the best-looking rocket! Here is the photo of our NASA SL rocket with the artistic printing design outside. The printing design features flowers/plants as the poppy flower is the state flower of California. The design is closely related to our payload experiment on how forces/altitude affect the mimosa pudica plants. The ultimate goal of space exploration is to find life (“flowers”) somewhere in the universe. Our team loves the design, and we hope you like it too! #nasastudentlaunch #nasa #rocket #stem
TARC National Finals!
So excited that our team made it to the TARC national finals for the second year in a row! Here is a video about what we have been doing in the current TARC competition season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ8xH7dn_3w Looking forward to an exciting trip to Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia on May 14th! #nasastudentlaunch #nasa #rocket #stem
Successful Full-Scale Rocket Launch and FRR Presentation!
Our team completed a successful full-scale rocket launch and payload demonstration flight last Saturday (3/12), and did well in our Flight Readiness Review (FRR) presentation to a panel of NASA scientists yesterday morning (3/18). Learning a lesson from our first full-scale rocket launch on 2/12, we improved our design and we made it! Here are the two videos we produced about our 2/12 and 3/12 full-scale rocket launch. (2/12/2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oflor6zeXxw. 3/12/2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfPEXN1v1Ww) We are grateful to NASA Student Launch Program for giving us such an amazing learning experience! Thank you, NASA SL! #nasastudentlaunch #nasa #rocket #stem
Our STEM-Engagement Video
This is the video of our team’s STEM-engagement presentation. In the video, we are presenting to our audience the history of rocketry and NASA, rocket parts, rocket-building steps, and our team’s rocket and payload design for the NASA Student Launch Program. Enjoy! #nasastudentlaunch#nasa#rocket#stem
Our Subscale Rocket Launch
Happy New Year! Our team – NASA SL Team LALC from Young Engineers in Action – started our first day of the new year by getting up at 4:30am, going to Mojave Desert about 220 miles northeast of LA, and launching the NASA SL subscale rocket we’ve designed and built in the past 4 months. We’ve also finished and submitted our 45-page Critical Design Review (CDR) report, flysheet, and slides to NASA experts. Great teamwork! Here is the YouTube link to our subscale rocket launch video: https://youtu.be/B017b6A3Weg
Meet Our Team Mentor
We feel so lucky to have Gregg Halligan as our NASA Student Launch Team mentor. Gregg came to our meeting on December 4 and shared with us his valuable experience with designing and building rockets. Thank you, Gregg!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Our team has spent most of our Thanksgiving break working on our TARC and NASA SL rockets and PDR follow-up report. We’re so grateful to the NASA experts, our advisor, our mentor, and our parents for always being there and supporting us! Happy Holidays!
PDR Presentation to NASA Experts!
Our team (NASA SL Team LALC from YEA) presented our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) report to a committee of six NASA experts last Friday (11/12). We made a 30-minute Powerpoint presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session. It was our first time answering questions from a panel of scientists. Glad that we presented our PDR report, our courage, and our team spirit!