I just created an account on yogile which is a new photo sharing service, and I've uploaded several pix I took at our meetings and during work sessions on the 'space capsule'.

http://www.yogile.com/tsrdunearspace#o1s

You can also upload photos to this by emailing them to tsrdunearspace@yogile.com

I uploaded a mix of resolutions. There seems to be some kind of monthly size limit, but I only saw it when I set up the album (I think it was 10MB/month but I'm not sure how to find it or what has currently been used)\

I uploaded a few at my iPhones full 5MB resolution but most are smaller, I still have the originals if we need them.

So If you upload more you might want to use a reduced size and keep the originals if requested.

Mr. Josh Shaffer of the N&O wrote up a nice story on the Team TechShop NC launch. Note the cautionary segment about the APRS data going wonky at 60,000 feet!

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/21/638421/hobbyists-aim-for-stratosp...

Jonathan

Awesome! I'll make sure to wear my "Rocket Scientist" shirt. :-)

I saw an ~45 second bit and a pre-break tease about the launch on WRAL 11 news last night. No interviews but they did put the name and what it was and why it was done.

And, here is a .pdf of the front page, that shows the space photo nicely:

http://www.newsobserver.com/content/print/front_pdf/1-A-Tue-August-24-10...

Jonathan

Awesome. Ask if we might be able to get an HD copy of the interview. :-)

Hey, folks,

Interviewed at WRAL's studio today; they say unless breaking news bumps us, we'll be on the six o'clock today. I felt pretty nervous but she said I looked fine on tape, so whatever... Excited about the fact that people think this was as awesome as we think it was, though I am not cut out to be on camera (:

WNCT in Greenville is also running our pictures tonight, if anybody's far enough east to pick them up (...Rodney?), and they'll send us a link to the video online later. I bounced them the pre-launch press release and tried to tell the producer a few quick words, but I think she was mostly just interested in the pics. Guess we'll see.

AP also wanted the pics. Woo.

--me

You guys were just featured on the local NPR news during All Things Considered. You can go to wunc.org and click on the play button for the Latest WUNC Newscast. I don't know how many times they'll repeat it, but the link is good for now.

Does anyone have the link to this? I looked around and could not find any mention of the launch...

I also recorded an HD copy of the video on my computer at home, but I have to convert it to something the mac can work with and then extract it out of the 30 minute newscast before it will be usable.

WRAL, however, has posted it to their website: http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/8185176/

The links to the articles go stale after a while as they move on to other articles, so it would be nice to have a digitally recorded copy of each of the news snippets, and a .pdf of each of the newspaper articles - is it possible for you to create a location to archive them as they are created? I know we have some - can someone else fill in the rest and upload them to one place?

My goal is to have a single CD with all the images, video, and pdf in one location for archival - be nice if there was a way to include the comments from the forums as well.

Rodney,

The WRAL links should stay valid as they have many, many years of stories available in their archives.

Not sure about that for the N&O. Can anyone comment about that?

N&O links stay valid for "subscribers" but go stale after a little while for the general public. Will see about WRAL video.

The above solidifies my interest in having an archival copy of the articles for my own use - can someone who recorded it convert it to a digital movie file you can put on a CD for me?

Thanx,
Rodney

Check with Jonathan T - I think he has it since it was still attached to his parachute, camera and Spot tracker...

So, everyone knows what's up, I'm scheduled to go talk with Nate Johnson at WRAL tomorrow at 1pm. I've been in touch with Jonathan about picking up the capsule tonight and have asked Nate about Jonathan tagging along (which I don't see as a problem but I thought I'd be polite and ask them first). According to Nate this would be for their Web Weather Extra series ( http://www.wral.com/weather/asset_gallery/5374788/ ) which apparently comes out each Wednesday on their website (but is not broadcast on air).