College Rocket-Builders Fly High, Even as Launch Falls a Bit Short - The Wall Street Journal

Last year, some college kids who barely knew one other had a wild notion to try to launch their own rockets into space. Then, on Friday and Saturday, something even wilder happened: They were actually in New Mexico watching their rockets blast off. Operation Space, the group of students from across the country who had never met when they decided to build a rocket, had every reason to believe their project would fizzle. They had to scrounge for parts. They ran into a comical series of errors when they first tried to assemble part of it, not to mention that one of the students had to hide the...