Technicians work to refurbish a former Russian rocket engine for launching satellites at the Aerojet facility in Rancho Cordova in this undated photo. Aerojet operations ceased there in 2019 ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – Students from 10 middle and elementary schools across the state were bused out to Rio Rancho Tuesday morning to launch 4-foot-tall rockets hundreds of feet into the air.