With $1 million gift, UCI aims to become first university to launch rocket into space

(University of California - Irvine) University of California, Irvine students will 'shoot for the moon' thanks to a $1 million gift from Base 11, a nonprofit STEM workforce development and entrepreneur accelerator. The 'Moonshot Initiative' will establish a rocketry program at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, with the intent of making UCI the first academic institution to launch a liquid-fuel rocket into space.