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Priest River Elementary School NASA Aerospace Program

This is the 25th year of astronauts visiting tiny Priest River Elementary School for 5th grade teacher Chris Naccarato's NASA Aerospace Program. Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger of Seattle and John L. Phillips of North Idaho visited the school. Also visiting will be David M. Marquart, a former Boise High School teacher who was picked in 1986 as one of the finalists for sending the first teacher into space on the Challenger shuttle.

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Priest River teacher marks 25 years of astronaut visits

Someone once told teacher Chris Naccarato he’d never get an astronaut to visit his students at Priest River Elementary School. He didn’t get one. He got over 20 astronauts – and one cosmonaut – to travel to the small town west of Sandpoint in the past 25 years. The latest guests of honor were at the school Thursday for what has become an annual highlight for Naccarato’s fifth-grade class and the entire school.

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