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Article: For Southfield students, it's rocket science.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
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- January 20, 2006
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Byline: Gina Damron
Jan. 20--For a group of Southfield teens, the sky's the limit -- literally.
They live by their bible, the "Handbook of Model Rocketry: 6th Edition."
And they've got the attention of NASA officials.The Southfield High School students make up one of 10 teams chosen from around the country for the NASA Student Launch Initiative. It will be the Southfield students' first time competing at the event, which will be May 4-6 at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The competition involves building a rocket that is about 8 feet tall and flies at least a mile into the sky.Since the beginning of the school ...