Students’ ‘homemade’ rocket soars faster and farther into space than any other amateur spacecraft — smashing 20-year records

Aftershock II, a new rocket built by students at the University of Southern California, recently broke a number of 20-year-old amateur spaceflight records for altitude, power and speed. It reached more than 470,000 feet above Earth’s surface and went “hypersonic.”

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