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on

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june 25th and 26th . White Sands

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Missile range and the Systems Go

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program conducted the Systems Go

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Goddard launch event where students are

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able to launch a rocket that they built

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from the ground up . We set up the

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rocket on stands , we assembled

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everything , got it flight ready and

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then put it on the rail . Students from

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brazil Woods High School near Houston

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texas , Alamo Heights High School in

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san Antonio texas and Union Grove High

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School in Gladewater texas participated

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this morning . We were the first ones

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out To launch . So we came here , we

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sat in the bunker . We waited and we

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waited like the phrase always says . We

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hurried up and waited . Um , and it

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looks like from the initial data that

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the students may have gone about 36,000

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ft , which would be a record for the

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program way .

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Yeah ,

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we

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got to actually launch the rocket that

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we spent a whole year working on .

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Whether it was technical worker

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actually hands on manufacturing . We

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have all put in a lot of work into this

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and we've done all of our research on

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it . Um , so the best we can do is hope

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that it flew well and it did . So I

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started off nauseous and then I started

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feeling giddy and then realization

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kicked in that my work actually worked .

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And so now I'm just pretty happy White

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sands . Missile range has been involved

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with systems go for around 23 years

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promoting engineering studies and

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research by providing real world

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opportunities for students . We had a

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successful take off , we got off the

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rail very well . Um , we had

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a takeoff sequence that was , I think

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pretty much what we expected . It took

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about two seconds from ignition to get

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us off the rail and that's what we're

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about predicted . So we do not know

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exactly how high the rocket went . But

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we Have , we're pretty confident that

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went to at least a record for our

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school because we've gone to about

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24,000 ft . And the radar , even if it

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didn't have the right start off

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altitude value or something like that ,

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We kept climbing for at least 24,000

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ft . The moment that I actually took

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off , it felt really good because I

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forgot about the two seconds that it

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was gonna be burning before it went off .

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And it kind of scared me . I was like

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it's gonna it's gonna leave . But once

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it took off , I was just focused

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because I was wanting to look at the

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computer screen and give call outs to

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the team about altitudes and everything .

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And and that was a really fun thing .

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There's a lot of people who are

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concerned with the future . They say

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that the next generation is going to

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ruin America ruin this . But I work

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with the best problem solvers , the

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best team workers and the best , uh ,

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the best students that I've ever seen .

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So the future is in good hands with

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this crew .