The High Altitude Balloon team is led by our VP of Payload and Recovery, Isaac Smith. Isaac is a junior studying aerospace engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is the testing and instrumentation lead for HYPERSONICS and has previously been a member of PHOBOS (2024) and BIG LIQUID (2024). Isaac also works with Dr. Damiano Baccarella in the hypersonic arcjet wind tunnel lab here on campus.