Robert Brand - Guest on The Space Show Robert Brand was a guest of Dr David Livingston on the Nov 1st 2011 edition of The Space Show. The program disussed Do-It-Yourself Space and was well received by all that heard it. The WotzUp website and the various missions were discussed at ... 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

BTS-1 extraction Today Friday 13th will be a good luck day for the intrepid crew of the Inspiration Capsule - We will try and extract them from a Louisiana swamp filled with alligators! Everything is in place including aerial assistance to locate the capsule and a recovery craft - an air boat. The ... Read More

Three Unusual Astronauts Await Rescue in Louisiana Swamp Well, the missing team made the press - not the mainstream papers, but the more geek related pages. PC Mag was the first to be noticed, then Yahoo News and more. This brief part of the story is from the website. The entire ... Read More

Recovery Video The recovery team has produced a video to let us know what is happening. Please note that the next recovery attempt will be tomorrow - Friday 13th May 2011. The crew is still stuck in the alligator infested swamp. We have aircraft at the ready to pinpoint their position ... Read More