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A plus in a class. >> reporter: students are trained and mentored by nasa employees, and the parts they make are inspected and held to nasa's rigorous standards. >> these are not widgets, and these are not paper weights. these are actual structural components that are flying to the space station. >> reporter: students are told when a part they've worked on is included in a nasa launch, and they even get a photo of it in use in space. for students like abigail gibson, the nasa hunch program has helped them discover new career paths they never would have considered. >> i feel really ready for wh...

Today four astronauts said their good-byes to crew members on the international space station ending a five-month mission. after undocking, they are now headed back to earth on a spacecraft set to splash down off the florida coast tonight. > getting into space is only for a select few, but some high school students are getting a shot of sorts. in tonight's weekend journal, olivia leech of cbs station ktvt reports how they're working with nasa on a launch of their own. >> reporter: it's monday morning at ben barber innovation academy. these high school students are hard at work using highly tec...