Colorado schools to participate in spaceport rocket launch

UPHAM, N.M. (AP) More than a dozen payloads from public schools and other educational organizations around Colorado will be aboard one of the rockets to be launched from Spaceport America during a competition next month.
The schools are teaming up with United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace for the June 24 launch at the spaceport in southern New Mexico.
Their projects will be launched on a 53-foot-tall, high-power sport rocket dubbed “Future Heavy.”
Spaceport officials say the ann