Engineering students at the University of Southern California (USC) have dramatically surpassed a 20-year-old world record for the highest altitude reached by an amateur rocket. Called Aftershock II, ...

A team of college kids at the University of Southern California broke the world record for the highest altitude reached by a rocket launched by amateurs — soaring a whopping 89 miles above the Earth.

Watch *** student built rocket reach dizzying heights and according to its creators break *** world record in the process. The rocket named the Aftershock 2 was designed and built by the student-run ...

A group of students broke the record for the highest altitude reached by an independently designed and built suborbital rocket, flying Aftershock II to 470,000 feet (143,256 meters) above Earth’s ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A startup that plans to use high-altitude balloons to deploy rockets has successfully fired a test launch, moving closer to its goal of helping end the backlog of ...