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

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

A Pig, a Chicken and a Bear.... Sounds like a joke, but this was real science with a bit of adventure too. Three intrepid explorers headed to "near space" and a chance to get close to the International Space Station that was due to pass directly overhead during the ascent. May 8th ... Read More

Track Us Here and Watch the launch - Live We launch 11am May 8th 2011 from Houston. Watch the launch Live and track the flight here! Enter callsign to track (leave blank to track BTS-1 if it is a launch date) Note that, unless this is an announced launch date, this map is ... Read More

This Morning's Launch Schedule If anyone is near Houston, or would like to travel, you are welcome to come out to the University of Houston Downtown campus to watch our launch, tracking, and recovery. The following is our schedule for launch. Launch preparation will start a ... Read More

A NASA Medical for the BTS Crew Saturday, April 23, 2011 The story below is a bit of fun for us on the team. We already know that our crew is made from the right stuff for this flight, but the story of space medicine is too good to ignore. You can ... Read More

BTS-1 Mission Status #3 I have another short mission update for you.  We have been been doing trajectory predictions every day to help us spot changes and trends in the landing location and flight path.  Lately, we were noticing that the flight distances have been getting longer.  ... Read More