1. Balloon Launch Facilities at McMurdo Pictures stolen from Boomerang site

2. What to expect at McMurdo The facilities are probably better than you think –24 hour internet connectivity –24 hour phone connectivity (just use phone cards) –If required, get FR isolation cage and other structures built (needs to go into SIP) There are several regions: McMurdo, Pegasus, and Williams (aka Willie) Field –McMurdo: where you’ll sleep most of the time, ship offload; –Willie Field: about 30 minutes by van from McMurdo - has dining facilities –Pegasus: ice runway for jet aircraft, C141, C5

3. Interior of building at Willie Field

4. Highbay door, balloon gondola ready for pickup by Delta

5. Delta Picking up the payload

6. Vans available for use Solar panels Delta

7. Moving Platform Waiting to be attached to balloon

8. Balloon, being inflated at Willie Field Mt. Erebus

9. Erebus Balloon Inflation Tubes Helium trucks Delta with payload

10. Landing via parachute View from tracking aircraft

11. Parachute Boomerang Shields Recovery of payload on Ross Ice Shelf; we should be so lucky