The Spaceport America Cup is designed around IREC – the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition for student rocketry teams from all over the country and around the world.
This is the "Super Bowl" of collegiate rocket engineering, with more than 100 teams from colleges and universities all around the world.
The competition has those teams launching their rockets to specific target altitudes of either 10,000 or 30,000 feet, using solid, liquid or hybrid fuels.
Yes, spectators are welcome.
Spaceport America is located west of the White Sands Missile Range, between Truth or Consequences and Las Cruces in New Mexico.
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