Over 980 middle school, high school, and college students participated in NASA's 2025 Student Launch competition at Toney, Alabama.
The event marked the 25th anniversary, where students follow the NASA engineering design lifecycle for nine months leading up to launch day.
This year's task focused on communication, with teams required to have 'reports' from STEMnauts inside their rockets relaying real-time data to mission control.
The Artemis Student Challenge was inspired by NASA's Artemis missions, aiming to send astronauts to explore the Moon and build towards crewed missions to Mars.