# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtKfAreOt2G
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15340977-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-06T21:21:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Congratulations to the University of Alabama in Huntsville for earning first place in this year's Student Launch challenge! 🚀

More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets on April 15, near NASAMarshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the culminating event for the agency’s annual Student Launch challenge.

For nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.

Student Launch is one of NASA’s nine #Artemis Student Challenges, activities which connect student ingenuity with NASA’s work returning to the Moon under Artemis in preparation for human exploration of Mars.

Image description: Four students from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who won second place in NASA’s 2023 Student Launch competition, carry their rocket to the launch pad near NASAMarshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. An American flag waves on the right side of the image. 

Credit: NASA/Charles Beason

#STEM #Student #Rocket #Launch #Space #NASA #Moon #Mars #LunarMission #NASAMarshall

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student, nasa, stem, rocket, launch, space, moon, mars, lunarmission, artemis, nasamarshall

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