Patrick Welch, a member of VCU’s Hyperloop team, at work at BuildRVA.
(Credit: VCU College of Engineering)
SpaceX, the company run by Elon Musk has made headlines for revolutionizing space travel.
But the company is also focused on travel right here on Earth — a high-speed futuristic train called the Hyperloop.
It doesn’t exist yet, but college students around the world have done their part to inch the Hyperloop closer to reality, by taking part in an international design competition.
As Mallory Noe-Payne reports two of the twenty teams that are worldwide finalists are from Virginia.
Virginia Public Radio 