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BRodda The Feature Creep Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 990	Texas A&M "Balloonsats" 07/18/2005 8:33 AM
	Texas A&M had a contest to make "balloonsats" to take aerial photos. It is amazing to see how cool COT technology has advanced in the last few years. __________________ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
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Paddy O'Flanigan Power-User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 255 Good Answers: 2	#1 Balloon Sats 07/19/2005 8:27 AM
	Seems like a much cheaper way to get tourists up to the edge of space as opposed to a $200k Virgin Galactic ticket. Checklist- __Space suit __Oxygen __Cell phone __Camera __Big Weather Balloon (maybe 2) __Parachute __Lawn Chair
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