ROLLA, Mo. (AP) — A team at the Missouri University of Science and Technology is competing to have a spacecraft launched into orbit.

The Rolla school says it’s one of 10 universities taking part in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Nanosat-7 competition. Missouri S&T’s team has received $110,000 in grants to build and develop two microsatellites.

Recommended Stories

National Archives to recall Nixon’s NASA years

Fireball across skies in West was flaming comet

Opportunity still roving on Mars after a decade