I’m just a little behind… This flight was from the summer of 2009. It was a real milestone for us.
Author: Administrator
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The Best Way to See a Balloon Rally
I was being given an excellent tour of a hot balloon when they asked “Want to go?”.
A huge thank you to Pilot Trudy Ann DeGraff and the great crew of “Cutie Dink”.
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Museum Day
It was a great day at the Albuquerque Balloon Museum. I got to spend the day making PongSats with students and talking to folks about JPA.
This isn’t just any rockoon. It is The Rockoon. This is one of James Van Allen original balloon launched rockets. In the reflection in the glass is the StratoLab Capsule. It doesn’t get any better then that.
There are even a couple of JPA rockoons here! Looking up you will find the Tandem model hanging from the ceiling.
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Holy Places
Jeff the Director gave me a tour of the Balloon Museum before tomorrows’ events. They have on display one of James Van Allen’s original rockoons. I didn’t know that any even still existed. It was a heart stopping moment.
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Cluster Ballooning at the Museum
Here’s a pair of images from the cluster balloon exhibit at the Albuquerque Balloon Museum.
On the left of the first image you can see a couple of our rockoons and a model of the Tandem. I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday giving talks and building PongSats.
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PongSats!
While making our plans for PongSats to space I came across these pics of two very cool PongSats. These flew about two years ago.
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JP the Radio
Tomorrow morning at 7am mountain time I’ll be on the Michael Shinabery show. If you are in the Alamogordo, New Mexico area, call in and say hi!
If you are out of radio range the show is normally posted online the next day at:
