Rocket Project team successfully launches a Vaio into the stratosphere

Earlier this spring, Sony's Rocket Project gave eight lucky high school students several Vaios, a crash course in rocketry, and the opportunity to design and build a rocket that could make it to the stratosphere. Well, what do you know? After a few weather-related setbacks, the thing finally launched on Friday, July 23 from its launchpad in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, achieving Mach 2.8 (nearly three times the speed of sound) in the process. Wernher von Braun never had it so good! Video after the break.

[gn7465 Posted Jul 30th 2010 6:20PM]

@LANjackal

It's actually pretty bogus. The kind of rocket they built is fairly simple and is done all the time by enthusiasts. Sometimes using no computer at all.

[jeff181995 Posted Jul 30th 2010 2:25PM]

The title is misleading, I thought they shot a computer into the stratosphere

[maf654321 Posted Jul 30th 2010 2:40PM]

I read the title as "Team Rocket project," which made me think this article was significantly more awesome than it really is.

[hell hound Posted Jul 30th 2010 3:03PM]

Would pay a million bucks to anyone who does that to obama and his cronies!!

[Painkillaz23 Posted Jul 30th 2010 5:52PM]

They should have put a camera on the rocket...wouldve been some nice pictures of the stratosphere...

[vrm Posted Jul 30th 2010 6:12PM]

This is it!

[Lee IV Posted Jul 31st 2010 1:30AM]

Team Rocket's blasting off again...!