# @unlincoln on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbtA98Mjiqe
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68974782-unlincoln-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-06T15:16:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** University of Nebraska-Lincoln (@UNLincoln) — https://gondola.cc/UNLincoln

## Caption

Though the launch only lasted a few minutes, getting to the International Rocket Engineering Competition was a yearlong effort from Caleb and the rest of the unl_rocketry team.

The minutes leading up to the actual launch were full of tweaks that put the team’s nerves into overdrive and called on everything they’d learned up until that point. But it was all worth it in the end — their perfect flight placed the team 7th out of 141 schools from around the world, a record high. For Caleb, not only was the successful competition gratifying, it also felt like a test run for his dream career.

“I'm a big space geek and I really want to work in space engineering, so being able to build a rocket as a team of students is super, super cool to me. When we’re at the actual launch site in Texas, you feel like you’re in your own mini mission control center. It makes you feel like this career is really possible.”
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caleb.hansolo is a senior computer engineering and robotics engineering major from Omaha. Tap the link in our bio to read his full story. 

📷: daniel4photo, Caleb Hans, unl_rocketry #ImAHusker

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