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Students help prepare, launch, and repair rockets during the half-day event.

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Priest River students launch into action at annual rocket event
May 14, 2024 1 a.m.

Priest River students launch into action at annual rocket event

For most of us, the fastest we will ever travel is roughly 550 miles per hour in an airplane. However, for former astronaut Thomas Marshburn, he went from 0 to 17,500 miles per hour in just eight-and-a-half minutes when he launched into space for the first time on Expedition 66.