New JPL Workers Shed Training Wheels For Rocket Launch

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 10, 2010 Less than three years after obtaining college degrees, a group of early-career employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., can now add “rocket launch” to their resumes. Recent graduates who work for JPL launched a sounding rocket 120 kilometers (75 miles) above Earth’s surface on Monday, Dec. 6. The rocket flew from the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexi

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