NYU Tandon Student Team Advances in SpaceX Hyperloop Competition

The team of undergrads, grad students and one recent alum will return to California this summer.


Subjected to a battery of tests in vacuum conditions with air pressure 1/1,000th that of the world outside, the NYU Tandon team passed successfully and got the green light from SpaceX organizers to go to this summer's hyperloop competition. 

Last month, the team of undergrads, grad students and one recent alum trekked from Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn to Hawthorne, Calif., to take part in a national student hyperloop competition put on by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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