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Foursomes project among 18 aboard International Space Station

Posted TODAY, 6:52 PM Updated TODAY, 6:58 PM

SAN ANTONIO - Four students from Hobby Middle School are riding high as they wait for their science experiment to be launched into space aboard an unmanned cargo spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station.

Their project, a crystal-growing experiment, was chosen among 54 within Northside Independent School District to be launched into space through the Student Space Flight Experiment Program.

A total of 18 student experiments will be aboard the Orbital Cygnus cargo craft as it makes its way to the ISS.

It feels really cool because school is what I do every day, and now Im known throughout it, said seventh-gradergrader, Anthony Holmes.

The foursome is made up of twoseventh-graders, Holmes and Kalista Ybarra; and two sixth-graders, Jacob Robio and Madelyn Hickman.

The group was stunned when they learned their project was chosen, and they admit their friends were impressed as well.

They're like, Oh, that's really cool. You're really smart. And I was like, 'I know I am, Ybarra said, giggling. Its really cool everyone knows about that now.

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San Antonio-area student experiment to launch into space