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  • A team from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory became the first student team to launch a rocket into space. WIRED's Arielle Pardes spoke with Neil Tewksbury, the team's Lead Operations Officer, about what it took to make it happen. Read more of the team's story on WIRED.com: www.wired.com/story/a-rocket-...
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  • @pw7225
    @pw7225 Před 5 lety +487

    That student can speak extremely well.

    • @alex0589
      @alex0589 Před 5 lety +43

      He can speak his own language.
      It's not rocket science.
      Great spokesperson though

    • @manuell3505
      @manuell3505 Před 5 lety

      @@alex0589 0:18 Through the what?

    • @joe01489
      @joe01489 Před 5 lety +11

      Yeah so articulate, NASA ought to be watching this kid

    • @lilmarine
      @lilmarine Před 5 lety

      @@manuell3505 karmen line

    • @linusf
      @linusf Před 5 lety +2

      @@alex0589 well, it is rocket science

  • @abrahamcb
    @abrahamcb Před 5 lety +228

    "The sky is not quite the limit anymore"

  • @inugamikorone4517
    @inugamikorone4517 Před 5 lety +342

    Wow thats so amazing i cant even build my own rocket on Kerbal Space program

    • @Noah-fx4cm
      @Noah-fx4cm Před 5 lety +7

      It needs more boosters

    • @zach6639
      @zach6639 Před 5 lety +6

      moment of silence for the thousands of lives lost in the pursuit of kerbal space exploration

    • @venkatjayadeepj1342
      @venkatjayadeepj1342 Před 5 lety +1

      Jebediah approves

    • @attackhelicopter3860
      @attackhelicopter3860 Před 5 lety

      Just mess around with the staging until it works

    • @8173Poseidon
      @8173Poseidon Před 3 lety

      i want to play kerbal but i don't have a gaming setup

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof Před 5 lety +122

    Congratulations to the USCRPL for this awesome achievement!

  • @MrSomeRedditor
    @MrSomeRedditor Před 5 lety +180

    "The krusty krab secret formula" lol
    What a dork. I love it.

  • @zach6639
    @zach6639 Před 5 lety +39

    Can you imagine if in 1958 we said "in 60 years some college kids are going to put a rocket into space"

    • @Makuhesa
      @Makuhesa Před 3 lety +1

      That's called foreshadowing
      -oversimplified accent

  • @Antenox
    @Antenox Před 5 lety +172

    Fight on and fly on!
    Sincerely,
    A fellow Trojan who works for NASA

    • @Grunskulle
      @Grunskulle Před 5 lety +2

      Truly amazing... just proves how hard it is to reach space .. well done !

    • @flatstuff1630
      @flatstuff1630 Před 5 lety +3

      @@Grunskulle yeah... Really hard. Some would even say it's FLAT out impossible.

    • @Grumm-Nation
      @Grumm-Nation Před 5 lety +1

      Sincerely; Read More.

  • @dylanschwartz2515
    @dylanschwartz2515 Před 5 lety +163

    *NASA wants to know your location*

    • @charliehelm2646
      @charliehelm2646 Před 5 lety +4

      Dylan Schwartz Kim John un

    • @Scott_C
      @Scott_C Před 5 lety +5

      Trust me... Most of the US government knows their current locations and has done background checks on them. That was most likely a part of their permission needed to conduct this type of research and materials handling.

    • @junjiedong3482
      @junjiedong3482 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Scott_C *its a joke*

    • @Scott_C
      @Scott_C Před 5 lety

      @@junjiedong3482 I know, the meme / joke, this one wasn't funny. Since they clearly addressed it in the video, I took the opportunity to at least be informative.

    • @emyymy6371
      @emyymy6371 Před 5 lety

      Scott Cress r/woooosh

  • @DunnickFayuro
    @DunnickFayuro Před 5 lety +6

    "The sky is not quite a limit anymore"
    I love that quote :)

  • @EllaGP22
    @EllaGP22 Před 5 lety +31

    The krusty krab secret formula, the rocket is fueled by krabby patties.

  • @tranl1050
    @tranl1050 Před 5 lety +6

    A fantastic achievement for those young budding individuals. And Neil Tewksbury talked really professionally and comprehensively about the topic.

  • @normanwong7815
    @normanwong7815 Před 5 lety +75

    Space-X
    Wants To Know Your Location

  • @KaushalKishor_
    @KaushalKishor_ Před 5 lety +42

    And I'm here can't even make sugar rocket..

  • @Mr_M_
    @Mr_M_ Před 5 lety +297

    You guys make this sound difficult. I mean it's not rocket science.... oh wait.

    • @Baigle1
      @Baigle1 Před 5 lety

      less plumbing and less custom manufacturing, less pieces

    • @dynamitedinosaur4601
      @dynamitedinosaur4601 Před 5 lety +11

      Don't forget to check your staging.

    • @richardmillhousenixon
      @richardmillhousenixon Před 5 lety +5

      @@dynamitedinosaur4601 never stage your capsule decoupler in the second stage. Never fails to cause a near instant RUD

    • @MrBLAA
      @MrBLAA Před 5 lety

      Model rocket science😉

    • @LeifLanglieFang
      @LeifLanglieFang Před 5 lety

      you're so funny hahahahaha

  • @justingould2020
    @justingould2020 Před 5 lety +7

    Nicely done! Congratulations to all the past and present students that pulled this awesome achievement together. The future is in good hands.

  • @KittySYT
    @KittySYT Před 5 lety +23

    And, I can't even launch a paper-plane properly, let alone a rocket! 😭

    • @salutic.7544
      @salutic.7544 Před 5 lety +1

      Kitty S emoji movie pfp

    • @KittySYT
      @KittySYT Před 4 lety

      @enøziye two Jealous of my big beautiful smile? 🌚

  • @itszyad4332
    @itszyad4332 Před 5 lety +5

    What an amazing achievement! But can we just appreciate that the tagline for USCRPL is "Flight me"

  • @dainielmaldo7624
    @dainielmaldo7624 Před 5 lety +11

    "The sky's not quite not the limit any more"
    -college space dude

  • @GG-si7fw
    @GG-si7fw Před 5 lety +2

    What made this story great was the great journalism. Well asked.

  • @manofvulture
    @manofvulture Před 5 lety +16

    9:01 gilfoyle is that you?

  • @Thiago-qt3tw
    @Thiago-qt3tw Před 5 lety +32

    Please, please, please Wired include the metrical system in your videos (at least subtitles). CZcams is global, Wired is Global, the imperial system is local.

    • @snepNL
      @snepNL Před 5 lety +3

      I would love that. Just give both measurements

    • @realyopikechannel
      @realyopikechannel Před 5 lety +1

      I mean even in America we use the metric system for science like rocket science why tf are they using the imperial system

    • @LOL1423derp92
      @LOL1423derp92 Před 5 lety +1

      There are those that use the metric and those who put a man on the moon

    • @IkarimTheCreature
      @IkarimTheCreature Před 5 lety +2

      @@LOL1423derp92 they're both the same, nasa uses the metric system.

    • @c.a.g.3130
      @c.a.g.3130 Před 5 lety

      @@LOL1423derp92 Reminds me that there are ll kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary, those that don't.

  • @shahirabdullah5438
    @shahirabdullah5438 Před 5 lety +13

    Reminded me of the movie "The October Sky"

    • @ayzy5010
      @ayzy5010 Před 5 lety +1

      Shahir Abdullah I was about to say that😂

  • @cheguevara391
    @cheguevara391 Před 5 lety +5

    One giant leap for college students, one tiny step for man kind

  • @Scott_C
    @Scott_C Před 5 lety +76

    Wow... congrats to them.
    Other schools need to set up their own classes for this.
    I'm looking at you MIT and other awesome engineering schools.

    • @TheJttv
      @TheJttv Před 5 lety +8

      There is already an international intercollegiate rocket competition it is just the goal not to get to space but rather as close to a specific altitude as possible. They launch at Spaceport America. And the competition is called the Spaceport America Cup

    • @Scott_C
      @Scott_C Před 5 lety +1

      @@TheJttv Neat!

  • @jaymondsperling8602
    @jaymondsperling8602 Před 5 lety +42

    Now Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will be fighting on whose gonna hire them!

    • @aps-c1766
      @aps-c1766 Před 5 lety +3

      well. this is their portofolio. so yeah. some of them will got recruited

    • @Finallybianca
      @Finallybianca Před 5 lety +1

      They will probably all go to rocketlab

  • @johnmaris1582
    @johnmaris1582 Před 5 lety +2

    I hope they have CZcams channel to show us his works.

  • @jbrown9201
    @jbrown9201 Před 5 lety +1

    That's my school! Congrats USC RPL! 💛❤️✌🏾

  • @yoshibutkagekira7899
    @yoshibutkagekira7899 Před 5 lety +1

    Its amazing what human creativity can reach us today

  • @Pablo-yj8lh
    @Pablo-yj8lh Před 5 lety

    How much did all the materials to make the rocket cost?

  • @oddlevi582
    @oddlevi582 Před 5 lety

    Awesome achievement! Congratulations!

  • @officialstevenma
    @officialstevenma Před 5 lety

    The comments are so much better than the actual video as usual

  • @Chemson1989
    @Chemson1989 Před 5 lety +2

    next,
    build a warhead

  • @YukonK9
    @YukonK9 Před 5 lety +1

    I really want to do a Space shot!

  • @alejandro.g.6448
    @alejandro.g.6448 Před 5 lety +1

    I tried to start a project like this 1 year ago, but then I saw the prices for the gas...

    • @funwithflags7506
      @funwithflags7506 Před 5 lety

      This is a solid rocket no gas used ????

    • @alejandro.g.6448
      @alejandro.g.6448 Před 5 lety

      @@funwithflags7506 You need gases like liquid nitrogen to get that to space, what, at least in my country, its very expensive.

  • @TaeSunWoo
    @TaeSunWoo Před 5 lety +2

    I wanted to do this back when I was a teen with a group of friends but our teacher claimed it “illegal” lol

  • @jackruefli8163
    @jackruefli8163 Před 5 lety

    So cool! These students are awesome!

  • @swoodc
    @swoodc Před 5 lety +4

    11:20 so witttyyyyy

  • @sc-fz6dq
    @sc-fz6dq Před 5 lety

    Great job! Fight on!!

  • @montanajones8393
    @montanajones8393 Před 5 lety +1

    Hopefully one day we'll be able to send a team to the moon & back.

  • @LeBeautiful
    @LeBeautiful Před 5 lety +19

    Now those are ROCKET Scientists.

    • @kyrieh5131
      @kyrieh5131 Před 5 lety

      Its not rocket science

    • @heavysleeperassclapper6054
      @heavysleeperassclapper6054 Před 5 lety

      @@kyrieh5131 ITS FREE REAL STATE!!

    • @kyrieh5131
      @kyrieh5131 Před 5 lety

      @@heavysleeperassclapper6054 you didnt spell it right

    • @prowlingtiger2226
      @prowlingtiger2226 Před 5 lety

      You didn't spell it right.
      It's spelled "You didn't spell it right."
      You made another mistake as well.
      "Is not rocket science" should be "It's not rocket science.".

    • @kyrieh5131
      @kyrieh5131 Před 5 lety

      @@prowlingtiger2226 i spelled it all right i just didnt punctuate it.

  • @ZhenRizen
    @ZhenRizen Před 5 lety +3

    Flat earther : It'S nOt ReAl ThEy PaId ThEm ThEy'Re PaId AcToR

  • @usuariodomes
    @usuariodomes Před 5 lety

    where is the dome?

  • @jemuelmongado5030
    @jemuelmongado5030 Před 5 lety +1

    maybe in the next decade or two, we would see college researchers launch their own orbital-class rockets.

  • @josephw4830
    @josephw4830 Před 5 lety

    Where can I get the data to stitch together for myself?

    • @josephw4830
      @josephw4830 Před 5 lety

      @Mr Mapunde Is that where you left your brain?
      I want their data stupid.

  • @japrogramer
    @japrogramer Před 5 lety +2

    I don't get how solid rocket fuel can be inert.

  • @drew856856
    @drew856856 Před 5 lety +2

    nice job. hopefully these guys can compete with Space X one day

  • @indianedu1054
    @indianedu1054 Před 5 lety

    The light of invention, brilliant!!

  • @sohanmaity3007
    @sohanmaity3007 Před 5 lety +1

    1.01 the moment when you wins a million dollar lottery

  • @jerryluis8119
    @jerryluis8119 Před 5 lety

    I want to see the full Space video (the Karman line)🤔

    • @MilitantPacifista
      @MilitantPacifista Před 5 lety +1

      The Karman line is an arbitrary definition where Space begins. Some countries use 80 km others the Karman line at 100 km

  • @johnsmithe498
    @johnsmithe498 Před 5 lety +18

    They now matched the size and strength of NKR rocket man rocket 😂 Kim Jon ung

  • @Alex_bkr10
    @Alex_bkr10 Před 5 lety +4

    Oh yeah well I can make a mean paper airplane

  • @advisedpotato8983
    @advisedpotato8983 Před 5 lety +1

    Now get it in to orbit

  • @jonaaviation
    @jonaaviation Před 5 lety +1

    I love that his name is Neil.
    Neil Armstrong

    • @2016lilys
      @2016lilys Před 5 lety +1

      Jona literally been friends with him for years and it took your comment for me to notice this. I feel like an idiot.

  • @Unmannedair
    @Unmannedair Před 5 lety +3

    Wow, not an easy task. Congrats.

  • @lifenjourney9181
    @lifenjourney9181 Před 5 lety

    Earth is stationary... Wow

  • @josephw4830
    @josephw4830 Před 5 lety +7

    '...unprecedented for us...
    Unprecedented period haha

  • @supernova6177
    @supernova6177 Před 5 lety +1

    Man I'm in highschool and I bet I could do that but 10 times better, if I actually had the money to do something like that.

  • @NGC-7635
    @NGC-7635 Před 5 lety

    Wernher Von Braun be like “ha, that is very cute rocket”

  • @CaptnBeardy
    @CaptnBeardy Před 5 lety +3

    You literally can't miss space......it's SPACE! the name says it all 🤣 but very well done.

  • @chris2account796
    @chris2account796 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Im sorry but the escape velocity is 25,000 mph

  • @arisaucedo3185
    @arisaucedo3185 Před 5 lety +2

    what if they got it stuck on the moon

  • @junssnow6415
    @junssnow6415 Před 5 lety

    gylfoil was on his team, cool

  • @Storm_x
    @Storm_x Před 5 lety +1

    Tbh these days it's not difficult to launch stuff into a space, a balloon can reach space.

  • @titlespree
    @titlespree Před 5 lety +8

    The space is the new frontier!

    • @DenverDonate
      @DenverDonate Před 5 lety

      Yea, when Captain Kirk was doing it. When Nasa was doing it.

    • @comareborn8734
      @comareborn8734 Před 5 lety

      Also Spacex and blue origin

    • @AB-it8hd
      @AB-it8hd Před 5 lety

      New frontier? Space is old and I thought it was the final frontier

  • @DJEDGAR42
    @DJEDGAR42 Před 4 lety

    Crusty Crab's Secret Formula, classic!

  • @Noneblue39
    @Noneblue39 Před 5 lety

    what an awesome accomplishment !

  • @khentada3550
    @khentada3550 Před 3 lety

    Solid can be a fuel?

  • @patemaus4900
    @patemaus4900 Před 5 lety +1

    North Korea: Can't get nuclear warheads on rockets into space
    US College Students: Send up rockets in there free time

  • @Astrochellie
    @Astrochellie Před 5 lety +1

    My school UNH, launches sounding rockets...

  • @michaelkhobbs741
    @michaelkhobbs741 Před 3 lety

    Congrats guys. It's a good feeling and I'm glad to know that the FAA granted you all waivers for the flight. That's a whole nother ball game in it's own

  • @BenX256
    @BenX256 Před 5 lety +1

    This is wrong, they are not the first to do this in 2002 the air force academy cadets started a program known as falcon launch they hold the record for collage students putting a rocket into space. Their current record is 355,000 feet which is well above the karman line at 330,000 and was achieved on april 24, 2009

    • @wire_writer
      @wire_writer Před 5 lety +1

      Sorry can you use metres? I don't know what a feet is

  • @Discrimination_is_not_a_right

    That is brilliant.

  • @cirentXD
    @cirentXD Před 5 lety +1

    Wired should come check out UBC. We do the same thing.

  • @russia-yesterday
    @russia-yesterday Před 5 lety

    Amazing accomplishment for these students. However, when one thinks of sending something into "space", generally you think of the payload or vehicle having a stable orbit or a stable sub orbital trajectory.

  • @AlexWh1
    @AlexWh1 Před 5 lety +11

    I don't get it...wheres the dome? ;)
    A curvature, I see... :o

    • @epsilonborealis
      @epsilonborealis Před 5 lety +5

      Keep in mind that most of the time curvature in videos like this is due to the fish eye lense (which is used in order to capture widest possible field of vision). Even at the Karman line, Earth's curvature would be barely noticeable. Earth is simply this huge.

  • @rogermoore2661
    @rogermoore2661 Před 5 lety +7

    Pause at 2:12 when the earth is in the exact middle of the screen....look at that beautiful, sweet sweet curvature...let's see how the flat earthers try to spin that..great job kids!

    • @keithfiredive
      @keithfiredive Před 5 lety

      Roger Moore I’m no flat earther, what you’re seeing is the fish eye lens though. See the curve fluctuations and flatten.

    • @pissoff9399
      @pissoff9399 Před 5 lety

      You dipshit it's a fisheye lens. Your a moron.

    • @pissoff9399
      @pissoff9399 Před 5 lety +1

      Oh look at 2:09 it's a flat earth. Bonehead.

    • @CarlosAM1
      @CarlosAM1 Před 5 lety

      @@keithfiredive thats the no distortion part of the lense. Its the true picture

    • @DanksterPaws
      @DanksterPaws Před 5 lety

      How did nobody get the joke

  • @wazda6488
    @wazda6488 Před 5 lety

    lmaoo in the Netherlands they did this half a year ago or something

  • @SprAlx
    @SprAlx Před 5 lety

    Base 11 competition still open, they didn’t beat it

  • @abhigyanverma6542
    @abhigyanverma6542 Před 5 lety

    Ok. Next step, college students build something orbital

  • @josephw4830
    @josephw4830 Před 5 lety

    @WIRED
    Link to the full video?

  • @BoBaH_BoBaHoB
    @BoBaH_BoBaHoB Před 5 lety +3

    What type of warhead? Сontinuous rod ?

  • @marksilla8276
    @marksilla8276 Před 5 lety +21

    Talk about getting high in college.

  • @KobiJaro
    @KobiJaro Před 5 lety +1

    Fight on! ✌️

  • @fieryspy6414
    @fieryspy6414 Před 5 lety +1

    SpaceX wants to know your location

  • @josephw4830
    @josephw4830 Před 5 lety +1

    2:51
    What caused the damage to the nose cone of this rocket?

    • @jueeceinahoven7213
      @jueeceinahoven7213 Před 5 lety +1

      Air resistance. Obviously. Why? are you gonna imply 'The Firmament'?

    • @josephw4830
      @josephw4830 Před 5 lety

      @@jueeceinahoven7213 Are you part of the rocket's team?

    • @jueeceinahoven7213
      @jueeceinahoven7213 Před 5 lety +1

      @@josephw4830 Are you a flat earther?

    • @MuszZico
      @MuszZico Před 5 lety

      Mjolnir

    • @prowlingtiger2226
      @prowlingtiger2226 Před 5 lety

      Donald Joe Trump
      No, no it isn't. And no, no it hasn't. Quite the opposite actually, it's been proven thousands of times *not* to be flat. People are just stupid.

  • @MTG762
    @MTG762 Před 3 lety +1

    I really want to send my own rocket into space. I’m 14 and I really love space and I’d say I’m doing well at school. We have the opportunity to send a rocket to space with our names on it if we win this competition but I’m not confident enough so I’m gonna wait till I’m older and team with people to send my own rocket to space.

  • @mellomilky8621
    @mellomilky8621 Před 5 lety

    Fly baby fly!

  • @arturoalejandrodiazacevedo8641

    Actually, y’all should check out utah state university because they’ve been doing this for years. They even have a partnership with nasa but students design both satellites and the rockets. But congrats to them too!

    • @dromr
      @dromr Před 5 lety +4

      But they Utah State hasn't been to space

    • @Plexiii13
      @Plexiii13 Před 5 lety +1

      Most large universities have similar programs. For example, my University has 3 rocket clubs and a cubesat club. It's still super impressive to launch anything, it's just not very rare anymore

  • @Ankko
    @Ankko Před 5 lety +8

    imagine delaying such a cool college project by multiple months by shutting the government down to throw a tantrum because nobody wants to give you money to destroy your relations with a neighbour state as much as possible...

  • @Gabriel-he6ih
    @Gabriel-he6ih Před 5 lety

    Im so happy to see something like this! Awesome guys!

  • @curitibanus
    @curitibanus Před rokem

    Waiting for the Warp Drive and the Nuclear Fusion Reactor. This will take us to Alpha Centauri.

  • @mattgaming8717
    @mattgaming8717 Před 5 lety

    Nice job all. Real goos stuff. Rocket scientists.

  • @marksilla8276
    @marksilla8276 Před 5 lety +5

    I'm guessing four is the lucky number for all rocket launches

  • @offilawnoone9020
    @offilawnoone9020 Před 5 lety +6

    Cool. Soon i see launching a rocket to space gonna be like a pc build. Everything is known and your task is just to hold a screw driver.

  • @orewanell
    @orewanell Před 5 lety

    Weren't there a lot of students do this before? I hope they can make something into orbit, not just some space.

  • @KCJbomberFTW
    @KCJbomberFTW Před 5 lety

    FIGHT ON!

  • @MatthewSuffidy
    @MatthewSuffidy Před 5 lety

    Not the same problem as orbit though.

  • @bilalyoutubber9480
    @bilalyoutubber9480 Před 5 lety +1

    Thats cool

  • @JohnsontheFly
    @JohnsontheFly Před 5 lety

    I wonder how much Kerbal Space Program those guys play :P

  • @KaushalKishor_
    @KaushalKishor_ Před 5 lety +6

    Wow that's what every science student should like