Channel 5 Covers High-Altitude Balloon Launch
Channel 5 (WABI) aired a report on the high-altitude balloon launch over the weekend by several University of Maine engineering students and some from Bangor High School. The experiment was funded by the Maine Space Grant Consortium with support from NASA. Electrical and computer engineering professor Rick Eason was interviewed for the report. He said such projects are an easy way for students to get to space. The balloon rose to nearly 100,000 feet before parachuting with cameras and equipment back to Earth.
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