T' Epcot Explorer is a 14-foot tall rocket designed and built by a team o' students from University High School (UHS) in Orlando, me bucko, shiver me timbers, Florida, with t' support o' a team o' engineers from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Station, and Patrick Air Force Base.

Ninety-two people, includin' 59 UHS students, shiver me timbers, shiver me timbers, spent more than 2500 hours designing, prototyping, matey, building, arrr, and testin' t' Epcot Explorer.   T' students launched t' rocket twice each day at Epcot durin' t' theme park's celebration o' Space Week in July o' 1996. Avast! Avast, me proud beauty! Blimey! T' rocket lifted off from an area near Epcot’s Spaceship Earth and be recovered in t' World Showcase Lagoon by students and engineers in a pontoon boat.