BLACKSBURG, Va., June 18 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Competition was fierce but Virginia Tech rose to the challenge, placing third at the 2026 NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) forum in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
NASA regularly seeks out innovative new concepts to improve humans' ability to operate on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The annual RASC-AL forum bridges the gap between academia and the aerospace industry by empowering undergraduate and graduate students to apply their classroom knowledge to real-world challenges in space exploration.
A team of Virginia Tech aerospace engineering students was among the fourteen teams from across the c...