4-H Rocketry winners.Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Colonel Buzz Aldrin, Sc.D (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) is an American pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. who made the historic moon landing with Neil Armstrong gathers with 4-Hers who competed in the Team America Rocketry Challenge The Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is an annual American model rocketry competition for students in grades 7 to 12 sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry. (TARC TARC Transit Authority of River City TARC Team America Rocketry Challenge (student competition) TARC Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center (San Francisco, CA) TARC Thymus and Activation Regulated Chemokine ) held recently in The Plains, VA. 4-H had four of the 100 teams entered and finished exceptionally well. The teams were from Farmington, MN; Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). , MN; Slinger, WI; and Germantown, MD. They were charged with the mission to design and build a model rocket carrying an egg that would fly to exactly 850 ft, stay aloft for exactly 45 seconds and return to the ground with the egg intact. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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