More than 500 Civil Air Patrol cadet teams’ scientific experiments soared skyward Aug. 13 in north central Indiana for Civil Air Patrol’s second national Aerospace Education High-Altitude Balloon Challenge.
Participating cadets from 122 squadrons representing all eight regions designed experiments for launching to the stratosphere in 50-milliliter test tubes on high-altitude balloons. The experiments were carried aloft as payloads in three balloons, ascending to heights from 98,663 feet-105,661 feet before falling back to Earth for recovery.
Cadets and senior members from both the Indiana and Kentucky wings helped prepare and release the balloons at Anderson Preparatory Academy in Anderson, Indiana. The Indiana Wing conducted a search-and-rescue exercise during the day with air and ground teams tracking and retrieving the balloons. Two airplanes and drones took to the skies while the ground teams located and returned the payloads for shipment back to the squadrons for after-flight analysis of the experiments.
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