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High Expectations Rocketry

Team name: High Expectations Rocketry
Vehicle name(s): ISP 1 & 2
Team leader: Keith Stormo
Team members: Keith Stormo. Barry King, Grant Stormo, Luke Dupin
Website: www.highexpectationsrocketry.com
Fuel: Nitrous oxide, nylon and propane
Level(2): One and Two
Vehicle Weight: ~300 lbs and ~400 lbs respectively
Thrust: ~350 lbs and 450 lbs respectively


High Expectations is based in Moscow, Idaho, and led by Keith Stormo. With a small team of four people who have worked together on other projects, high Expectations plans to compete for the first time in both levels of the competition.

One team member is a machinist with skill in CNC manufacturing; a second team member is a professional engineer who has extensive experience programming single board computers (PLC's) and has designed remote control/operations of automated wastewater treatment systems with other members of the team. A third member of the team has extensive experience in database management, computer software, programming, remote monitoring and control over the Internet, as well as computer code development for numerically intensive applications. The fourth member of the team has been designing and building nitrous oxide and nylon hybrid rocket engines for the past five years. The craft looks like a rocket, but lands like a lander, and can be stable in flight without active attitude control. High Expectations is attempting to show that with ingenuity, major advances can be made without spending millions of dollars.

Find out how High Expectations Matches Up against all of the other teams.

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"The Lunar Lander Challenge, like the original Ansari X PRIZE, has really focused the entrepreneurial spirit of many and is forcing teams into thinking outside the box. I had followed Armadillo Aerospace for the first 4 years and then attended the second X PRIZE Cup with thoughts and designs racing through my mind. After no prize was awarded last year, I pulled together a team of diverse individuals with whom I had worked on other projects and who also really enjoy solving challenges."
-- Keith Stormo, on the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge