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UA Rocket Design Team Plans Big Launch March 29

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Something very special is about to happen out in the California's Mojave Desert, on March 29th. That's when the University of Akron's "Akronauts" rocket design team will launch their latest, entirely student made "Emergence 5" rocket, which they're hoping hoping will go faster, and fly higher than any other they've launched in the past; powered by a custom-blended liquid fuel they call "Wayside White". To find out more about it, I talked with Akronauts Project Manager, Corbin Lauvray. Listen now:

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