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Auburn University engineering students will soon launch a high-powered rocket thousands of feet above the Earth, and select patients from Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham are coming along for the ride.

Members of the Auburn University Rocketry Association, or AURA, delivered its 11-foot, 6-inch projectile—to be used in the NASA University Student Launch Initiative, or USLI, April 12-17 in Huntsville, Alabama—to the hospital on Feb. 13, where AURA team members helped the children apply their imaginations for two hours to paint everything from astronauts and a space craft to palm trees, rainbows and even a tiger on its fuselage and wings.

Read more about Auburn’s rocketry team painting a vision ‘For Brighter Futures’ in their visit to Children’s of Alabama.