SASM AIM Camp – 6/27/13

We had interesting weather the morning of this launch.

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Because of the wind gusts and rain associated the potential storm, it was decided to prep the equipment in the hanger at the Strategic Air and Space Museum.

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The balloon was then walked outside for the launch.

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We had to wait a while until the GPS locked on our command module with the heavy cloud cover. Once it did, we were go for launch.

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It came down in waist-high corn about 50 ft from the road which was right off I-29. The students were able to make use of their newly acquired GPS skills to make this a fairly painless recovery.

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