Northwest Indian College Space Center

We launched Gordon’s LOC Precision HyTech on a G80-7. Altitude guesstimate is about 2000 feet. We lost it and the altimeter in the high grass. Cold Day! Winds about 10 kts from the north. Here is a short video of the launch.

We were just notified that your proposal for then 2011-2012 University Student Launch Initiative was accepted. Along with Northwest Indian College are 41 other institutions. See our USLI blog at http://blogs.nwic.edu/rocketteam

Calendar DATE EVENT October 17, 2011 Registration Deadline for First Workshop October 29 & 30, 2011 First Workshop at College of Menominee Nation December 5, 2011 Registration Deadline for Second Workshop December 17 & 18, 2011 Second Workshop at College of Menominee Nation December 31, 2011 Proposal Due February 3, 2012 Preliminary Design Report (PDR) [...]

What started out as a tongue-in-cheek classroom activity in November of 2009 has turned into a powerful learning opportunity for Northwest Indian College students.  Rockets! Rockets? That was a topic of interest for a couple of students, Justin and Robert, while sitting in Gary’s classroom after the day’s classes. “What can we do with our [...]

NASA has posted an article about our USLI team’s adventures, called “Don’t Let Inexperience Stop You From Flying“. It’s a good article about us and it’s on the NASA web site.

Thursday, September 29, 2011, members of the REZRiders team will present their poster of 2010-2011 team events to the participants of the WSSGC reception to be held at the University of Washington.

Analyze, Build, and Flight-test Rockets Our Proposal to NASA for the ESMD Project: MSFC3-27-SD, Spacecraft Analyze, build, and flight-test rockets to develop systems engineering skills.  A rocket is to be built that will target an exact altitude which lies between 3500 ft and 7500 ft (above ground level).  The target altitude is negotiable, but must [...]

An awful lot has transpired since the last post. I and four team members went to a NASA Advanced Rocketry Workshop in Las Cruces, NM the latter part of July. Kiya earned her Level 1 Certification, our team won the “Most Spirited” award, we visited America’s Spaceport (still under construction) and we launched high powered [...]

Physics 111, Learning about Things (mostly the physics of rockets) class stared on 7/5/11. We’ll be uploading photos and videos of student rocket projects. The first week has ended with several very successful air rocket flights, including one with a streamer recovery system, which, unfortunately, is now residing on the roof of one of the [...]

We just received our National Association of Rocketry Charter. We are #730