Cathy Babcock-Rec started out with an interest in the Houston’s Pacifica Radio Station in high school and took her early education into the technical aspects of broadcasting. She got her First Class FCC license after graduation from Elkins Institute for Radio Broadcasters, and at 19 she went to work for Southwestern Bell as a Communications Technician.

In 1984, she transferred to AT&T and maintained the high-frequency radio equipment. Because of her excellent work as a liaison between AT&T and NASA, providing backup microwave broadcast links for televised portions of shuttle missions, she went on to work at NASA-Houston in Voice Control within Mission Control.

She worked a number of significant shuttle missions. In 2006, Pluto hit her Ascendant and she brought her varied abilities and talents to Astrocollege/IAA. She is the eldest daughter of Ena Stanley, the Founder of the College.

She has worked making the school’s QuickBooks what they are today and she has brought a high level of organization and professionalism to the general office procedures. Cathy is your go to person with questions on registering for courses here at Astrocollege/IAA. Catherine E Rec

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