Aerospace Club

  • Vanderbilt rocket

    Vanderbilt takes top prize in NASA student rocket launch challenge

    The Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has captured first prize in the 2013 NASA Student Launch Initiative. The Vanderbilt team also took home the 2013 Best Payload Design award for the most creative and innovative payload experiment: bio-hybrid ramjet engines that use carbon-neutral, 100-percent-renewable bio-hybrid fuels for combustion. Read More

    May 21, 2013

  • NASA Vanderbilt Bottle Rockets

    Bottle rockets pique middle schoolers’ interest in engineering

    The Aerospace Club has partnered with Peabody College to produce a five-week program using soda bottle rockets to introduce middle school students to basic engineering principles. Read More

    Dec 10, 2012

  • 2012 rocket test

    Aerospace Club to participate in NASA rocketry challenge

    Organizers of the NASA University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) have announced the student teams whose inventive creations will soar skyward in April during the space agency’s 2013 rocketry challenge. Read More

    Nov 30, 2012

  • Vandy rocket launch USLI09

    Vandy rocketeers strike again

    Last Sunday, Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club participated in a major NASA rocket competition at Huntsville, Alabama and came away with a first place award for their payload design. This is the fourth year that the Vanderbilt group has been invited to the NASA Student Launch Projects rocketry challenge and… Read More

    Apr 22, 2011