Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.29.2018
Members of O.C. to D.C. listen to beeps from an altitude indicator inside their rocket to learn the rocket's launch apex, March 29, 2018, while competing for a slot in the Team America Rocketry Challenge national competition through the STARBASE 2.0 program at STARBASE Los Alamitos. Successful launches were scored based on proximity to specific altitude and flight duration goals set forth by......
Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.29.2018
Sixth grader Regina Rodeghiero throws her hands in the air in excitement while running to recover team Fire Boltz final rocket after a launch, March 29, 2018, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. Redghiero and her teammates from STARBASE Los Alamitos' STARBASE 2.0 program had two high-scoring qualifying launches for the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) and missed an......
Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.28.2018
A payload-carrying rocket blasts off the launch pad and zooms up a launch rail, March 28, 2018, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California, during the STARBASE Los Alamitos STARBASE 2.0 program participation in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) competition. TARC teams required two successful and safe launches for consideration in the TARC national competition. Launches......
Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.28.2018
Seventh grader Franklin Nguyen crosses the fingers of his right hand while looking up to follow one of team Fire Boltz launches as part of the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), March 28, 2018, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. Fire Boltz recorded two qualifying launches for the TARC competition, but missed a national competition invitation for the top 100 teams by......
Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.28.2018
Eighth grader Madison Nash, center, carries part of a rocket and walks through a field following a Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) qualifying launch attempt by STARBASE Los Alamitos team O.C. to D.C., March 28, 2018, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. Members of two STARBASE 2.0 rocketry teams at STARBASE Los Alamitos recorded the qualifying launches needed to be......
Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.28.2018
Seventh grader Patrick Malies prepares to launch a rocket as O.C. to D.C. team member Madison Nash, an eighth grader, watches the launch pad, March 28, 2018, during the STARBASE Los Alamitos STARBASE 2.0 program's official launches at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California, for the annual Team America Rocketry Challenge competition. STARBASE Los Alamitos is one of two Department......
Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.28.2018
Members of team Fire Boltz react with cheer after qualifying official Jann Koepke determines their payload of two boiled eggs returned safely to earth with no cracks and their first rocket launch was cleared for submission for the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) competition, March 28, 2018, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. Fire Boltz recorded the two qualifying......
Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman | California National Guard Primary | 03.28.2018
Fifth grade students attending the STARBASE Los Alamitos day-time program take a break from their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum to cheer for middle schoolers in the site's STARBASE 2.0 program as they launch qualifying rockets for the Team America Rocket Challenge (TARC), March 28, 2018, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. STARBASE 2.0 gives......
