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Episode 4 – Floating to Space
Our host reaches for the final frontier with a group who has spent the past 30 years trying to get to space in a balloon.

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A woman in a red dress sitting in a chair appears in a Star Trek fan film produced by Potemkin Pictures.

Beam Me Up

Brittni Barger journeys into the final frontier with some passionate fans that don’t just want to watch Star Trek, they want to create it as well.

Artist rendering of Sputnik in Space

Sputnik

Okay, so where in our great history of space exploration shall we begin? Well… as in all great stories, perhaps it is best to start at the beginning.

In the beginning there was Sputnik.

Echo satellite image with NASA written on it

Balloons in Space – Part I

If this were the 1940’s, you would already know about Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Tennessee Williams. Roosevelt might be your President, and Generals Eisenhower, Patton and MacArthur might even be your heroes.

High Rack holding PongSats 100,000 feet above Earth

Beyond Geek Web Extra: PongSat

JP Aerospace wanted to open space up to everyone. They came up with a program that would cost nothing for a budding scientist to fly an experiment to the edge of space.