In what at first glance seems like a terrible sense of direction, in March students from the University of Washington fired rockets from kites and balloons at an altitude of 3,000 ft (914 m) straight into the ground at Black Rock, Nevada: a dry lake bed in the desert 100 mi (160 km) north of Reno. This may seem like the ultimate in larking about, but it's actually a serious effort to develop new ways of collecting samples from asteroids... Continue Reading Students crash rockets to develop new asteroid sample collection technique
Section: Space
Tags: Asteroid, Rocket, Spacecraft, University of Washington
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