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A team from the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Laboratory became the first student team to launch a rocket into space. WIRED’s Arielle Pardes spoke with Neil Tewksbury, the team’s Lead Operations Officer, about what it took to make it happen. Read more of the team’s story on WIRED.com: ►► Also, check out the…

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27 Comments

  1. Discrimination is not a right.

    June 4, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    That is brilliant.

  2. Matt H.

    June 5, 2019 at 12:33 am

    No flat earth comments? The earth even looked flat lol…RIP I guess

  3. AyouMike

    June 5, 2019 at 1:09 am

    I wonder how many of them are flat earthers lol ?

  4. billy the dead

    June 5, 2019 at 1:36 am

    Bravo

    • 1davidovv

      June 5, 2019 at 4:08 pm

      Eddie

  5. Jeremy McWhorter

    June 5, 2019 at 1:44 am

    Checkmate, flat earthers.

  6. NGC 7635

    June 5, 2019 at 2:06 am

    Wernher Von Braun be like “ha, that is very cute rocket”

  7. M.Arjuna Putra Perdana

    June 5, 2019 at 2:43 am

    gylfoil was on his team, cool

  8. supaavtr700

    June 5, 2019 at 9:39 am

    Space x has joined the chat

  9. oof

    June 5, 2019 at 11:22 am

    Metric pls

  10. alaskankare

    June 5, 2019 at 3:31 pm

    This is BS! College students at University of Alaska have been launching rockets for decades! Just because California finally did it isn’t anything special.

    • By the time you finished reading this name, I stole your virginity.

      June 6, 2019 at 1:32 am

      The significance here is that it broke the Karman line

  11. Adrian Sieber

    June 5, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    Why the heck can’t you use the metric system for your reporting? The team used it, the interviewee used it, and most importantly you claim to do SCIENCE REPORTING. It’s so pathetic.

  12. Yichuan Wang

    June 5, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    C’mon, they are not the first… MIT and other college students has already done it several decades ago.

  13. YAH YEL

    June 6, 2019 at 12:59 am

    Elon Musk have joined the chat.

  14. Pete Kennedy

    June 6, 2019 at 10:16 am

    Flat Earthers: “oh”

  15. SalsaCookies

    June 6, 2019 at 8:21 pm

    This is somerhing that I really want to do, but I’m just not smart enough to major in Aerospace engineering.

  16. Albie Rodriguez

    June 8, 2019 at 1:08 am

    300 000 feet = 91 440 meters
    3 386 mph = 5 449.23878 kmph

  17. Gunpowder

    June 8, 2019 at 6:47 am

    You mean the earth isnt flat

  18. Tony stark jr

    June 8, 2019 at 7:02 pm

    Congrats

  19. ФёдорГенадич Микроволнов

    June 8, 2019 at 8:33 pm

    1:00 allahu akbar! – allahu akbar! – allahu akbar!!! (just fun to imagine this)
    So if a Muslims will build their own muslims-nasa, would they screaming “allahu akbar”?

  20. PRIZM CMYK

    June 9, 2019 at 6:03 am

    need government permission to launch things into space?

  21. DunnickFayuro

    June 9, 2019 at 1:58 pm

    “The sky is not quite a limit anymore”
    I love that quote 🙂

  22. Jeff

    June 9, 2019 at 11:43 pm

    Yet again, I REALLY regret that liberal arts course load I pursued.

  23. Jemuel Mongado

    June 10, 2019 at 12:02 am

    maybe in the next decade or two, we would see college researchers launch their own orbital-class rockets.

  24. Potato Gamer

    June 10, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    Now get it in to orbit

  25. Jessica Brown

    June 11, 2019 at 4:16 am

    That’s my school! Congrats USC RPL! ?❤️✌?

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