Speaker Topic for this Month: “High Altitude Balloon Launches” Joanne Michael, KM6BWB Joanne Michael, KM6BWB is an educator, wife, mom, space geek, and ham radio operator. While attending Advanced Space Camp in 2012, she was first introduced to the idea of high-altitude balloon launches. After a few more years of thinking about it, an opportunity …
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May 28
Repost: One Radio Amateur Aboard Historic SpaceX Launch
05/27/2020 If all goes according to plan, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken, KE5GGX, and Doug Hurley will make US space history today [May 27], as human spaceflight returns to the US for the first time in almost a decade. Behnken and Hurley will be on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the “test flight” powered by a Falcon …