Student rocketeers aim for sky

by JEFF LESTER • News Editor
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Brandon Carson of Pound High and the other students got their rockets autographed by Scott County resident O’Dell Carroll, one of the ‘rocket boys’ immortalized in former NASA engineer Homer Hickam Jr.’s memoir about how building model rockets as a kid in West Virginia led Hickam to a prestigious career in space flight. JEFF LESTER PHOTO.Click Hereto order photo reprints