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In the foreground, a line of people stand at a safe distance away from a sounding rocket launching in the background. The rocket is just off the pad with a plume of fire and smoke underneath.

RockSat-X Sounding Rocket Launch

Students watch as their experiments launch aboard a sounding rocket for the RockSat-X program from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 11, 2022, at 6:09 p.m. EDT. The Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket carried the experiments to an altitude of 99 miles before descending via a parachute and landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

Image Credit: NASA Wallops/Terry Zaperach
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