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Flight I - Icarus : 2/23/10 - Photos from Beaufort High School's Digital Photography class' first attempt to put a camera in space to photograph the Earth. The launch took place from Macon, Georgia at 11:09 am. We received data from a SPOT Personal Tracker for hours but nothing from the MT-8000FA. Our next attempt will be in early May.

Flight I - Icarus

Flight II - Daedalus : "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” - Walt Disney

Flight II - Daedalus

We Did It! : The Daedalus was recovered on May 8, 2010, seven days after being launched into space. It reached a maximum altitude of 106,502 feet, crossed parts of two states and returned to earth with 1,000 photos.

Enhanced : Just a few photos that have had the orange capsule removed from the corner and have been color corrected with Photoshop…gotta love Photoshop.

Flight III - Test Flight : June 21, 2010. Successful test flight. Tested was a SPOT Personal Tracker, two mini camcorders, a piezo buzzer and a tennis ball cannon. The flight was launched from Ruffin, South Carolina and came down East of Fairfax, South Carolina. It reached an altitude of 93,757 feet. The SPOT tracker worked great. The minicams...not so much. We heard the buzzer 1/4 mile away. The capsule came down in a pine tree, 30 feet in the air. We used the tennis ball cannon to shoot a line over the tree. We pulled up a stronger line and pulled the capsule down...Cool, huh?

Flight III - Test Flight

Flight IV - Whale Branch Middle School : Whale Branch Middle School Launch

Flight IV - Whale Branch Middle School

Flight V - Gemini I : This launch has been named Gemini. If you remember the first manned NASA programs, Gemini was the second manned space program for NASA. The first program, Mercury, was just to get into space; to successfully launch and recover spacecraft. We have done that with our last four launches. The Gemini Program extended that and tested men and equipment. That’s our goal. Beaufort High plans on submitting an experiment in the NASA sponsored Balloonsat High Altitude Flight Student Competition. The competition is open to high school teams. Our Gemini launches are designed to give a group of teachers first-hand experience in launching a balloon into near space. Students selection will begin at the start of the 2011-2012 school year.

Flight V - Gemini I

Flight VI - Gemini II : This will be our sixth flight. We will be using our new hexigon shapped capsule. And will be the first launch involving Beaufort High's High Altitude Balloon Club.

Flight VI - Gemini II

Flight VII : Flight VII was an attempt to photograph a sunrise at 100,000 feet. We were a little late with the launch and to top it off the still camera stopped just as the sun was clearing the horizon. But everything was recovered and the videos looked nice. :)

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