Fluidr / 2017 Student Launch by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

After a day of rocket launches during the 2017 Student Launch, NASA announced the challenge's preliminary winners April 8 at an awards ceremony hosted by Orbital ATK Aerospace Group of Promontory, Utah, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/Fred Deaton

For more images from this year's Student Launch, click here.

For more information about Student Launch, click here.

To read the full article, click here.

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