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Each month the Daughters of Penelope Foundation Book Club offers a Main Selection, a Greek Selection and a Just For Fun/Gift Selection to our members and anyone interested in books! Our books include fiction, mystery, memoirs and history in addition to some very special cookbooks, gardening guides, great beach reads and humorous books.
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Featured Speaker: Yiannis Karavas
Last year, high school science teacher Ron Dantowitz of Brookline, Mass, played a clever trick on three of his best students. He asked them to plan a hypothetical mission to fly on board a NASA DC-8 aircraft and observe a spacecraft disintegrate as it came screaming into Earth’s atmosphere. How would they record the event? What could they learn?
For 6 months, James Breitmeyer (17), Brigette Berman (16), and Yiannis Karavas (17) worked hard on their assignment, never suspectng the surprise Dantowitz had in store.
On March 12th, he stunned them with the news: “The mission is real, and you’re going along for the ride.”
In early June, Dantowitz and the teenagers travelled halfway around the world to help NASA track Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft as it plunged into the Earth’s atmosphere at 27,000 mph and shattered over the Australian outback. After boarding the DC-8 and flying to 41,000 feet, their hard work finally paid off when they successfully recorded the fiery re-entry.
Join us at the National Convention in Miami, Florida to find out more about what happened on this mission as Yiannis Karavas speaks to us about his part in NASA’s Hayabusa Re-entry Airborne Observing Campaign.