March 29, 2016 – The door of the Boston University Rocket Propulsion lab sits ajar as group member Pete Andrews works late into the night. Taped to the glass is a front page Boston Globe article featuring the team’s recent accomplishments in rocket development. The group is working to assemble the newly developed liquid bi-propellant Lotus engine. Two of the Lotus engines will eventually be installed on the Starscraper, a 30 foot 1200 pound rocket, and launched from the Black Rock Desert in the summer of 2017. The Boston University team is in a tight race with the University of Southern California to be the first student designed and constructed rocket to reach space – or 62 miles above the earth’s surface.&nbsp;©Mike Schwarz