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Total Students
2,609
Total Launches
683
Eggs Survived
418 61.2%
Rockets Survived
536 78.5%
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Hopi Rocketry Challenge
Welcome to the Hopi Rocketry Challenge web site! This web site is dedicated to rocketry activities at Hopi Elementary School, Ingleside Middle School, and Arcadia High School. You will also find lots of information about model rocketry, astronomy, and NASA. Each month there will be a new original article related to the exploration of space courtesy of the scientists at NASA. So enjoy our adventures in rocketry, and let us know what you think of our activities and web site!
Read MoreDiscover the cosmos!
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. .
See MoreExplore the solar system
Neptune—the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun—is dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. It was the first planet located through mathematical calculations.
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Going My Way?
You might think choosing a rocket to boost a spacecraft on its way would be the last piece of a mission's design. On the contrary, it's one of the first. The laws of physics and economics being what they are, the spacecraft itself may well have to be designed around the kind of ride to space that can be procured for it. Procured by whom? In this case, the program architect. Find out a bit about this complicated task at the very beginning of a new mission.
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