Students at Texas A&M University are bringing vintage into the future by transforming a 1950s antique carnival rocket car into a virtual reality flight simulator for STEM outreach to introduce young minds to the excitement of engineering.
Three years ago, a team from NASA worked on the design of the life raft at a Texas A&M University facility that would have protected astronauts in the event of an emergency in the Gulf of Mexico. The crew of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon carried that raft into orbit in 2020.
Aerospace engineering students, Bochan Lee, Farid Saemi, Grant Erickson and Grant McCurdy have been awarded scholarships from the Vertical Flight Society for their cutting-edge research in vertical flight technology.
