NOTE: The caption has been modified to reflect the correct spelling of two names in the caption since the picture was first published.
NOTE: The caption has been modied to reflect the correct spelling of Doud Hodum’s last name since the story was first published. It was a reporting error.
NOTE: The caption has been modified since it was first published to reflect the correct spelling of Doug Hodum’s last name in the caption. It was a reporting error.
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- Mt. Blue High School students Ben Luchini, left, and Adelle Richards record a balloon inflation as Maverick Real, left center, Thomas Wing, right, Cordelle Ellis and Justin Parlin try to control it Thursday morning. Doug Hodum’s biology class, University of Maine students and engineer Rick Eason launched the balloon loaded with seeds, loose bread, yeast and algae at a field off Seamon Road across from the Farmington school. Liam Welch monitors the gas in the background. Hodem said the balloon was expected to rise to about 90,000 feet and, when recovered, experiments will be done on the payload. Hodem’s classes have been participating in the NASA-sponsored astrobiology ballooning project for a few years. NOTE: The caption has been modified to reflect the correct spelling of two names in the caption since the picture was first published.
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- Mt. Blue High School biology teacher Doug Hodum, right, attaches a packet of algae to a payload of a balloon for student Megan House, left, Thursday morning in a field near the Farmington school. The payload included a variety of seeds, yeast and loose bread that Hodem’s classes plan to study after the balloon is recovered. NOTE: The caption has been modied to reflect the correct spelling of Doud Hodum’s last name since the story was first published. It was a reporting error.
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- A balloon carrying seeds, loose bread, algae and other materials rises from a field across from Mt. Blue High School in Farmington on Thursday. Biology teacher Doug Hodum, University of Maine students and engineer Rick Eason launched the balloon. Hodum’s students will do experiments on the payload once the balloon is recovered. NOTE: The caption has been modified since it was first published to reflect the correct spelling of Doug Hodum’s last name in the caption. It was a reporting error.
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