Additional Happenings at the National Balloon Museum
Check out the Red Bull Stratos Project on Google and learn all about Joe Kittinger"s record and Felix Baumgartner from Austria trying to break his record. Its sponsored by Red Bull and the Des Moines office has been very helpful. This will happen between now and August.
Schedule for the week of the Classic, at the National Balloon Museum:
July 31, 2010
Speaker: Early balloonist Don Caplan from St. Louis "The Early Days of Ballooning" 1:00-3:00
August 1, 2010
12:30-1:45 Book signing "Come Up and Get Me!" for the new autobiography from Joe Kittinger
2:00-4:00U. S. Ballooning Hall of Fame Induction
4:00-5:00 Book signing for "Indianola: Ballooning Capital of Iowa" by Dennis
D. Nicholson and Becky S. Wigeland - Kittinger book signing continued.
D. Nicholson and Becky S. Wigeland - Kittinger book signing continued.
August 4, 2010
1:00-3:00 Robert von Zeppelin speaking on "The Trials and Tribulations of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin".
August 5, 2010
(Thursday)1:00-3:00 Viewing of the new movie"The Red Baron"