1 Science Fair Balloon - 8 th grade student Jodie Tinker wanted
to launch a video camera for her science fair project
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2 Science Fair Balloon - Jodie flew the Tachyon XC helmetcam on
two separate missions
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3 Science Fair Balloon -Jodie won 1 st place in the Alabama
State Science Fair in her category plus 10 additional special
awards -She plans more missions for this coming school year
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4 NASA Glenn BalloonSat Competition -Four student teams from
across the country participated in a three day event at NASA Glenn
in Cleveland, Ohio
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5 NASA Glenn BalloonSat Competition -Tours of Plumbrook station
and NASA Glenn were conducted this is one of the Worlds largest
vacuum chambers
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6 NASA Glenn BalloonSat Competition The four team experiments
included: - Bacteria cultures (2 teams) -- Thermal conductivity
experiments -- Radiation effects on solid state memory
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7 NASA Glenn BalloonSat Also included were NASA camera payloads
and APRS by KB8PVR and WB8ELK DominoEX
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8 NASA Glenn BalloonSat Our chase bus full sized tour bus not
designed for single lane gravel farm roads The four teams
outstanding in their field make a successful recovery Corn is much
easier to deal with when its 6 inches tall
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9 Makers Local 256 High Altitude balloon photo competition
Makers challenge balloon competition to take the least expensive
photo from the edge of Space Huntsville Makers club members have
flown two missions so far The most recent flight landed next to a
cathouse (the yellow shed) where two wild cats have quite a nice
setup Tom is shown making a rare appearance
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10 Spaceport Indiana INSpace Camp -15 Junior and High school
students -flew experiments as part of a week-long Summer camp
learning about Space and Science
12 Spaceport Indiana INSpace Camp -Students manned ground
station telemetry and tracking stations inside the Spaceport
building at the Bakalar airport in Columbus, Indiana -APRS and
Spacenear.us tracking maps were displayed on the wall
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13 Field Day Balloon 2010 Ozonesonde Hitchiker with a 4 ounce 8
milliwatt DominoEX22 transmitter on 144.34 MHz Predicted landing
site was forecasted to be right on top of the Huntsville Amateur
Radio Clubs Field Day site
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14 Field Day Balloon 2010 Huntsville Amateur Radio Club members
watch as the payloads parachute down directly across their field
day site
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15 Field Day Balloon 2010 Missed landing on the HARC Field Day
site by 0.75 miles Landed right in the middle of Lady Ann Lake
Field Day location
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16 Field Day Balloon 2010 A conveniently placed kayak saves the
day