“Teachers in Space Inc is a leader in installing orbital and suborbital space education. They bring real Space and atmospheric science directly into the classroom through teachers and their students. Well designed, teacher developed and tested programs that span across the US. Teachers in Space supported me throughout my time flying balloons as a student developed club, shortly after my participation in their 2012 workshop”
… “I have been waiting for this opportunity to fly since my first workshop with TIS in California.”
Hi, I’m Chris Murphy
My Teaching Experience
I have been teaching science at the high school, middle school and college level for 25 years.
Flight Experiment Experience
I have flown over 30 high altitude balloons now with my club and Teachers in Space with multiple student/ teacher experiments on board. I was part of the original TIS PerLan glider crew that flew multiple data missions here in the US and Argentina. I have tested and flown multiple sensors and cameras that needed vetting for high altitude flight. I was selected by Teachers in Space, along with a student from my highschool, for a parabolic flight awarded by ZeroG.
Flight Experience
I have flown in multiple gliders, paragliders, Cessna 172, HH Iroquois, and a Pitts. I have also been in multiple flight simulators Empire State Aerospace Museum (Schenectady) Intrepid Museum and Fox 1 fight simulator in Utah.