labor market/Education flight

Hi,

If we want to settle space we are going to need more scientists and engineers.

Just an update. JPA flew three balloons last Saturday. We ran
to 85,000, 101,000 and 103,000 feet.
The launch from from the Black

Rock desert in Nevada. Recovery was smooth for the high Sierras.
Only

18
hours and one clutch, we got off easy.

This was mainly for
PongSats class student experiment. We flew 785 PongSats from 2300 students. We
had constant
14
mph winds with gusts just over 20mph during the fill and launches.
The

highest winds we've flown is 24mph with gusts 35 so this was no a
problem. It
went well, but it really make us work for it. One of the
new
things tested was a live
Google Earth interface in mission
control.
It
makes it more dramatic and a lot easier
to track multiple vehicles
in
flight.

I've started posting the pics (we flew 4 HD camcorders
and 7 still cameras)
on our blog and facebook
site:

www.jpaerospace.com/blog
www.facebook.com/jpaerospace?sk=wall

Now

the only thing left is to clean equipment and get the stuff together
for
the PongSats. Each student gets a picture set, a data sheet and a

DVD of
the launch and inflight video. Getting it all together and
sorted
and mailed
takes more time then the missions themselves. :)

JP

--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Al Globus wrote:

From: Al Globus
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] high frontier labor market
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 6:40 PM

On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Victor Smith wrote:

> Ok, so I can exaggerate with the best of them. The point remains
> that if we want to be a spacefaring race, we have to get more MEN
> (and women, of course) into space. It may not be quite as simple as
> I painted it, but it certainly neednt be as complicated and
> doubtful as so many others paint it either. Maybe we could start
> with a crew dedicated to mitigating the orbital debris

Except that robots can do this a lot better.

How about if we bring down the price of launch so that people that
want to go into space can afford a ticket?