Donations made by the Musk Foundation to a BU rocketry team uncovered by The Daily Free Press are igniting debates over private donorship and revealing intra-University tensions over the funding it receives.
Boston University’s Rocket Propulsion Group visited Ellis Mendell Elementary School in Roxbury on Thursday to give a group of third-graders a hands-on lesson with rockets.
The Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group is preparing to launch a 1,100-pound, 30-foot rocket into space by summer 2015. If they succeed, BURPG would be one of the first student groups to accomplish...
Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group director Armor Harris said he and his group’s members hope to build on research done at BU to successfully launch a rocket into outer space by 2015.
“We’re...
