Outside the space community, few people knew.
Members of Concordia University’s rocketry club invested the last two years or more of their lives, working 60 to 70 hours a week and enduring sleepless nights to successfully fire the most powerful student-made rocket engine ever recorded.
According to The Gazette’s René Bruemmer, their efforts were part of a growing grassroots movement to relaunch Canada’s long-dormant rocketry program, at a time when the need to control what Canada sends into space to protect its own interests was becoming increasingly clear.
And their journey isn't over.
