Blind Students to Launch Rocket Under NASA Program

USATODAY reports that A group of blind students from across the US are working on a summer camp project not usually associated with the visually impaired, launching a NASA rocket.

"The students are designing and preparing the rocket's payload at the National Federation of the Blind's Jernigan Institute in Baltimore. On Thursday, they will launch their rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

"The camp is part of an effort to encourage the blind to become involved in the sciences and to develop alternative methods to teach the estimated 100,000 blind and visually impaired students in the United States."

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