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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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NASA Commons
Students in NASA’s Student Launch Rocketry Competition watch a rocket take off in Tooele County, Utah during the 2013-2014 contest. Georgetown’s new rocketry team hopes to compete in this year’s competition.

Students Launch Rocketry Team

By Lucy Prout September 18, 2015

When Eric DeShields’ (MSB ’18) plans for a Georgetown solar go-kart racing club did not quite pan out, he decided to settle for the next best thing: a rocketry club. The Georgetown Rocketry Team...

COURTESY STUDENT SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIMENT PROGRAM
Left to right: GWU students Shayda Shabazi and Jun Xi Ni, Thomas Burchfield (COL ’15) and Maryellen Campbell (COL ’16)

Experiment Lost in Rocket Explosion

By Deirdre Collins November 11, 2014

Maryellen Campbell (COL ’16) and Thomas Burchfield (COL ’15) worked for months on an experiment that would test whether chrysanthemums could remove harmful toxins from the air in space shuttles,...

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