Perse School in Cambridge has beaten 19 other teams to become national Youth Rocketry Champions, winning an all-expenses paid trip to NASA in Houston, USA.
Held at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, 20 small groups from across England, Northern Ireland, and Wales had to design, construct and safely launch a rocket carrying two raw hen’s eggs. The rocket was required to reach a height of exactly 800ft and weigh no more than 650 grams. The payload of eggs then…
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