ROCKET MAN
by Nash Nunnery
Published: March 27,2011
Tags: James Kelly, Mississippi State University, MSU Space Cowboys
Forget Elton John, John Glenn and even David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. Meet James Kelly, a true-blue, red-blooded, All-American rocket man. The Corinth resident began studying rocketry and building his own model rockets when he was a junior in high school. “I really didn’t have an interest in rockets until my cousin showed me a rocket [...]
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