T&L Extra: The Space Cowboys Bring Mississippi State Aerospace Engineering a National Championship

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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One of the few rules we try to follow on Thunder & Lightning is if you win a national title, you get to be on the podcast. Today, Brian Hadad is talking with Cooper Shanks and Wesley Quarles of the Mississippi State High Powered Rocketry Team, better known as the Space Cowboys. They explain how the International Rocket Engineering Competition works, and what heights they had to reach to win the title. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of On3 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

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0:00.0	A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.
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0:39.7	One of the very few hard and fast rules we have on the Thunder and Lightning podcast
0:43.5	is if you win a national title, you get to be on the podcast.
0:47.6	Like it went for baseball, it went for irrigation troubleshooting, it went for debate.
0:52.1	Today it goes for the Space Cowboys, the Mississippi State
0:56.7	high-powered rocketry team, who just recently won. This is all new terminology to me, so you
1:02.8	get to have it to the 30K-K-Cats category single-stage rocket at the International Rocket
1:09.4	Engineering Competition. They are number one.
1:12.0	Cooper Shanks, the president of the space Cowboys team, Wesley Corals, their chief engineer.
1:17.4	Can I go nerdy here?
1:19.1	Does that make you like Captain Kirk?
1:20.4	And he's Scotty over there?
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