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

Predicting the Unpredictable Like all good things we have been doing a lot of planning, but nothing prepared us for the flight of BTS-1. Well, not so much the flight, but the landing. We knew that during the flight things were not going as planned. The flight track was headed west, ... Read More

We all have questions We all have questions, but the mission team has to get answers. What have we been discussing? Basically a lot of science: Here are some of the questions that have been debated. We don't have the answers to all of them and in someways, that makes this balloon trip ... Read More

What does a Mission Planning Team do? Each Group that I am involved with on the WotzUp pages has a team. They often use something like a group Facebook page for the team discussions. So what do we talk about? An amazing amount of things. As an example of our chatter ... Read More

Fun with Science – Pressure Relief Lately, our mission planning group has been discussing how to make our capsule waterproof. Launching from Houston, a water landing is very possible, and we want to be prepared. We will be using a styrofoam box that will be strong enough for ... Read More