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Hey guys and gals....be sure to register for the 2nd annual student launch from Spaceport America. 

We will have robotics displays, student experiments and a rocket launch. Register NOW!

Let us know if you are coming out.

Open registration is closed. Register by telephone only!

Call 575-646-6414 for more information.

Watch Video of Student Rocket Launch -  click here

After analyzing the results of a test on the parachute system for the SL-5 rocket, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) Director Dr. Patricia Hynes has rescheduled the SL-5 Student Launch to Friday, May 20. Engineers from UP Aerospace conferred with NMSGC launch officials and it was determined that, even though the drop test was successful, a portion of flight hardware became entangled during recovery and was damaged. Safe return of the students' 27 onboard ...

We have liftoff: El Paso, New Mexico students eager to see results of rocket launch

by Ramón Rentería \ El Paso Times

Posted: 05/21/2011 10:48:45 AM MDT

SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. -- Maybe it wasn't exactly Cape Canaveral, but 800 students had at least 21 reasons to celebrate what they described as an awesome aerospace adventure.

At 7:21 a.m. Friday, a nervous Aileen Montana of El Paso twisted a knob that hurled a 20-foot rocket with 21 student experiments from ...