This geocoin, along with another one owned by the Cane Master family, survived an exciting trip 64,000 feet into outer space before crashing back to earth on a high altitude near-space balloon on April 11, 2014.
It is believed to be one of only four geocoins to ever venture into space. It was awarded to my son (Sente) and I for being the first to find (FTF) the downed space balloon it was launched on.
Using a combination of our geocaching skills and our amateur radio direction finding equipment and skills we tracked, chased, and found the downed balloon three counties away from it’s launch site.
We then led a team of students and teachers through swamps and deep creeks to the site to recover the balloon and its payload, which contained science experiments, a video camera, an amateur radio, and two geocoins.
Using the link below, you can view a brief 4 minute video filmed by Mississippi Storm Chaser Vincent Webb, and aired on WLBT TV, of the balloon’s ascent high above the clouds, where the Ross Barnett Reservoir looks like a little lake and you can see the curvature of the earth. The film shows the balloon launch, ascent into space, the tail end of the group hiking through the swamp, the recovery of the payload, and CaneMaster and Sente being awarded the geocoins which flew in the payload.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFovpNukmwY