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Amateur Near Space Exploration The Poor Man’s Space Program.

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1 Amateur Near Space Exploration The Poor Man’s Space Program

2 The Near Space Stack Weather Balloon Load Line Recovery System Tracking Module(s)

3 A Typical Near Space Mission Flight and Weather Prediction Flight Readiness Review Filling and Close Out Launch Chase Recovery Lunch!

4 The Near Space Environment Pressure: 75 mb and falling Temperature: -40 degrees and climbing Cosmic Ray Flux: 300 counts/cc*sec Skies: Black Horizon: > 300 miles away and curved!

5 Past Experiments Weather Station (sonde) Geiger Counter Photometer Geomorphology Astronomy Technology Testing Life Sciences

6 FAR 101 The FAA’s Rules On Balloons, Kites, And Rockets Keep weight to a maximum of 12 pounds No module more than 6 pounds Use a recovery system Permission of air space owner

7 Information/Resources Nuts and Volts (odd months) Nutsvolts.com (weekly blog) Amateur Television Quarterly The Citizen Scientist NearSys.com Near Space Book (Parallax.com)

8 Will Launch Balloons for Food

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