BASE 28 Flight: 2008 August 2

Launch: Great Plains Superlaunch - 12:43 UTC from William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri

Ascent Rate:   1200 ft/min        

Burst Altitude: 97,000 feet        

Landing Time: 14:24 UTC

Landing Site: Lee's Summit, Missouri

Smooth launch with three other balloons simultaneously at Great Plains Superlaunch. Video coming. Payload string separated at 60,000 feet during descent resulting in separate landing for command pod from rest of the string. All packages were located and recoverered, although the experiment pods were in a tree that required pulling the pods with a 40 foot extension pole.

Experiments flown:

Relative Photometric Measurements of Absorption Lines of Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Ozone

Polarization of Skylight - powered by a solar cell

Dual Axis Cosmic Ray Telescope

Three digital video cameras