Oregon State USLI

With the death of Senior Instructor Nancy Squires in June, we lost a dear friend. To celebrate her life, we established the Nancy Squires Memorial Aerospace Engineering Fund, which will support student success at OSU. Join us by making a gift: bit.ly/3ivVKok

It’s a brand new year with brand new challenges, and we’re hitting the ground “zooming” over here at Oregon State! We’re so excited to have been selected to participate in this challenge!

The team just completed the final component of CDR, a teleconference showcasing our rocket design! Now the team is ramping up manufacturing for our rapidly upcoming first full scale launch. Bonus: Alex's cat.… instagram.com/p/B7_sLvUBhps/…

Felt cute, might launch a rocket later, IDK. #nasastudentlaunch #gobeavs #beavsinspace #feltcute instagram.com/p/B5a58hrhXMc/…

Rockets are cool!

Just a friendly reminder that it isn't rocket season until you're covered with sawdust and making a bulkhead kabob! #gobeavs #beavsinspace #nasastudentlaunch #isthishowyounosecone? #manufacturing instagram.com/p/B4u8bIlhs98/…

Liftoff looks even better in slow mo. Leaving the launch rail in just 0.27 seconds! 🚀 #beavsinspace #oregonstateengineering #gobeavs #nasastudentlaunch @ Brothers, Oregon instagram.com/p/BuZdqymBg1g/…

What 0 to 60 in a third of a second looks like. Our onboard GoPro gave us this great view of Central Oregon from 5000 feet up 🚀 #beavsinspace #nasastudentlaunch #oregonstateengineering @… instagram.com/p/BuR-FMyBEiW/…

Successful launch! Our full scale rocket reached over 5000 ft! Nearly 57 pounds and 129 inches tall, we have a fully functioning rocket to fly at our competition at NASA's Marshall Space… instagram.com/p/BuQEx0EDcj1/…

Couplers are finished! Each one is 18 layers of fiberglass. Each layer was carefully laid in a mold. These couplers will keep the airframe together until black powder splits the rocket in… instagram.com/p/BtUEFqrBewC/…

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's haunted nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted

Trying to make acronyms like...

When your teammates get lost on their way home from launch

RocketPoxy can take a while to dry, but subscale fins are finished! 🚀#beavsinspace #nasastudentlaunch instagram.com/p/Bqyjij0jl81/…

When the team lead schedules a meeting at 5:00 on a Friday night

Beavers are natural born leaders 🐄 #cowherding #gobeavs

In October 2003, Hubble released this iconic image of the Sombrero galaxy. In honor of #NationalAstronomyDay, see and download this image and those of many other galaxies as captured by Hubble in our brand new galaxy @flickr album: flickr.com/photos/nasahub…

Interested in talking with a NASA engineer from the Apollo-era?! Come to Linus Pauling Science Center today @ 7 PM. to talk with Mr. Hubbard!! #NASA #OregonStateSTEM