Tag: Base 11 Space Challenge
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OK Go contest winners will launch their cosmic creations on Blue Origin spaceship
Members of the OK Go performance-art band (at left) give the good word to one of the winning teams (shown on the screen at right) in the Art in Space contest. (OK Go via YouTube) Three students are getting ready for a space experiment that will use gravity and magnetism to simulate the origin of…
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Hey, kids: Put a rocket in space and win a million dollars in Base 11 Space Challenge
News Brief: Students from colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada are being recruited for the Base 11 Space Challenge, a $1 million competition to encourage the development of a liquid-fueled, single-stage rocket powerful enough to reach 100 kilometers (62 miles) in altitude. That height marks the internationally accepted boundary of space. Deadline for…