What is WotzUp all about? The simplest answer is "hands on" space! The author, Robert Brand has been working on science and space projects for some time and is letting everyone ride along with the projects he s working on. Some are high altitude balloon missions like SpaceQuest. Others are medium ... Read More

Robert Brand's Daily Space News I am pleased to announce that the author's Daily Space News service is now available here on the WotzUp.com website. Simply click on the link "Daily_Space_News" at the top left of the page to access the service. There will be about 30-40 of the best news ... Read More

Coming Soon: The goal of the SS2S Program The underlying goal of the Sugar Shot to Space program is to loft a rocket powered by "sugar propellant" into space. Officially defined as 100 km (62 miles) above the earth's surface. Inspiration for this project arose from a dialogue and enduring exchange of ... Read More

Space-Quest is one of the projects in which I am involved. There are others and they can be selected by category from the lower menu bar under "Categories" or click here: "Space-Quest" Space-Quest is the first project I got involved in and a favorite. It is the ongoing story of a couple ... Read More

The Recovery This story first appeared on Camilla SDO’s blog: The Recovery and the flight happened May 8th 2011 The team was stuck in an alligator infested swamp and the recovery team were working with the refuge Fish and Wildlife team to find a way to recover the capsule. They decided to ... Read More

Flying High This story first appeared on Camilla SDO's blog: The BTS-1 Flight and the flight happened May 8th 2011 Camilla SDO says: In my previous post I talked about our launch experience. In case you missed it you can read it here!  So, here we are. At approx. 65,000 feet when the ... Read More

BTS-1 Crew Press Conference Now for the fun part of the story. Documenting the trip and presenting the science and raw data. For a great bit of fun, here the brave crew of the BTS-1 mission answer questions at there official Press Conference. This was conducted on Facebook and the names have ... Read More

BTS-1 Launch Schedule Some time back I proposed a launch checklist. Here is the actual checklist used for the mission. Of course there are some points about communications with the crew, that you might want to overlook if your own mission does not require a crew! T-11 hours ▪   Weather and engineering briefings ▪   ... Read More

APRS Flight Data We haven't been able to download all the photos yet or the video of the flight and I guess there will be so many photos and so much video that it will take a lot of culling and editing before we will see anything much on the site, ... Read More

BTS-1 Recovered - All Safe and Well Friday 13th was a good luck day for the intrepid crew of the Inspiration Capsule - found safe and well and recovered from a Louisiana swamp filled with alligators! This has taken a global effort to locate the missing team. With dead batteries and no ... Read More