North Texas Section

Congratulations to our North Texas Colleges!
International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC)
15-21 June 2026 
Spaceport Midland, TX

15^th Place - UT Dallas (10K’ Student Design) pictured above
31^st Place - UT Arlington (10K’ COTS) pictured below
52^nd Place - Tarleton State (10K’ COTS)
126^th Place - Baylor (30K’ Multi-Stage)
Out of 141 International Teams!

Special Awards 
UT Arlington
- Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence
- Charles Hoult Award for Modeling & Simulation
- Nancy Squires Team Spirit Award - Runner Up
UT Dallas
- 10K’ Solid SRAD - 2nd Place

Moon Day STEM Event
Saturday, 18 July 2026
Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field
6911 Lemmon Ave, Dallas, TX 75209  (214) 350-3600
Moon Day celebrates the Apollo 11 landing anniversary and showcases the past, present, and future of space exploration. AIAA NTX along with SETP Southwest Section will again participate with our Flight Test Range & Sim.

1. Design, Build, Decorate a paper airplane.
2. Fly it on the Flight Test Range to measure time and distance.
3. Compute the resultant velocity, convert it from fps to mph.
4. Fly the Sim.
Volunteer! Morning or afternoon shifts available (please specify). Pizza volunteer lunch provided. Come early to fly our sim. Stay late to meet the astronaut for a picture & autograph. Or do both!

Keynote Speaker
Carl E. Walz (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) served as a NASA Astronaut (1990-2008). He logged 231 days in space on four space flights including the 196-day Expedition-4 crew aboard the International Space Station. Walz conducted three spacewalks totaling more than 18 hours evaluating tools for the Hubble Space Telescope refurbishment and outfitting the International Space Station. Walz graduated in 1983 as a Flight Test Engineer at the USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California.