The previous record-holder was a rocket designed and built by the Civilian Space Exploration Team, which launched in 2014 to ...
Students at the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) designed and built the rocket named Aftershock II.
There have been setbacks—most disastrously last June when a cargo rocket ... he jumped into that gap, founding Space Exploration Technologies Corporation—or SpaceX—going into competition ...