Scholarships in memory of experimental test pilot Eric E. Fiore Archives

Scholarships in memory of experimental test pilot Eric E. Fiore

The Eric E. Fiore Memorial Scholarship Fund

By Carol | June 27, 2025 by Carol

Congratulations to My New Scholarship Recipient I’m thrilled to announce that I have awarded my 28th scholarship via the Eric E. Fiore Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Kansas Cosmosphere to send a student to Space Camp. Congrats to Wyatt Wells of Wichita, Kansas who is the 2025 award winner. Interested in learning more about the amazing life of USAF NATO F-15 pilot/experimental test pilot Eric E. Fiore? Read “Flight through Fire.”

Scholarships in memory of experimental test pilot Eric E. Fiore

Congratulations to the 2019 winner of the Eric E. Fiore Memorial Space Camp Scholarship

By Carol | July 16, 2019July 29, 2019 by Carol

If you’ve ever purchased a copy of Flight through Fire or donated to “The Challenger Fund” after Eric’s plane crash, then you helped send a kid to Space Camp at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. As an experimental test pilot, Eric was one step away from astronaut. He had applied to NASA only a month before the accident, so it seemed fitting to fund a scholarship to send kids to Space Camp. I’m…