Blasting Through Summer

MSU Space Cowboy demonstrates a rocket launch for YES campers as one rocket takes flight.
Photo by Logan Kirkland

July 2, 2018

Spencer Lampkin, a junior aerospace engineering major from The Woodlands, Texas, leads a rocket launch during "Adventures in Flight," part of the Starkville-Oktibbeha School District's Youth Environmental Sciences Program. Lampkin is a member of MSU's Space Cowboys, a team of students that designs, manufactures, tests and launches rockets. The Youth Environmental Sciences Program is part of a science education partnership between the school district and MSU Extension.