Purdue University in Zero-G

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The NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in a hands-on, team-based multidisciplinary, design-build-test engineering program. The program, administered by the Texas Space Grant Consortium, in the new undergraduate project course in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is described.

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Research opportunities from sounding rockets at Johns Hopkins University

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The sounding rocket program at Johns Hopkins University provides graduate student the opportunity to use sounding rocket-borne telescopes and spectrographs for astronomical and atmospheric observations. One launch is described, along with other details of the program in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

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Undergraduate rocket propulsion

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Purdue University has recently developed a rocket launch competition focusing on the use of high power model rockets to demonstrate rocket propulsion and trajectory principles. The competition is an integral part of the undergraduate rocket propulsion class where lab projects would be complex and hazardous.

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