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CAP High-Altitude Balloon Challenge 2021 (Highlights)

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,This flight video was recorded from two high-altitude balloons (a.k.a weather balloons) launched from Indiana by StratoStar for the 2021 Civil Air Patrol (CAP) High-Altitude Balloon Challenge. Utilizing StratoStar's Student High-Altitude Research Experience (SHARE) Program students built small science project which were mailed to StratoStar which were flown and returned for analysis along with the flight data. LIVE Video Coverage and Commentary of the Mission's Launch and Recovery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVy1i_tcAU **CAP High-Altitude Balloon Challenge Overview** Over the summer of 2021 thousands of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Students developed space focused research questions and designed science experiments which were launched to the edge of space on August 21st, 2021. Civil Air Patrol’s Aerospace Education Office saw a need to engage students (known as cadets) in the rapidly growing space industry with the announcement of the Department of Defense Space Force branch. The CAP Aerospace Education Team developed partnerships with StratoStar, a STEM project based learning company and Colonel Joe Kittinger, a decorated war hero and human space flight scientist, to train cadets to conduct space research and provide the opportunity to fly the science projects above the atmosphere on high-altitude balloons. Through these partnerships the Civil Air Patrol High-Altitude Balloon Challenge was born! **StratoStar Flight Data & Tracking Page (Basic Analysis)** This is the link to the page Captain Bob was using during the LIVE launch event to track data from both balloons. Your students can look at the provided graphs and maps from each of the balloons using the dropdown in the upper right. Be sure to take a look at all the tabs: Maps, Graphs and Data. https://tracking.stratostar.net/mission/0436 **Google Sheets Flight Data (Advanced Analysis)** Here are the links to the Google Sheets data for Balloon 1 and Balloon 2 for your students if they would like to make their own graphs and take a deep dive into the data. Please make a "Copy" of the data or if you would like to use Excel please download the data to your computer in "Excel" format Balloon 1 - Flight Data - Google Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11kHyV8i0eAvcdw8SWWQnRbut-fT75lh6DDGr-NpUQp4/edit#gid=1035436323 Balloon 2 - Flight Data - Google Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NvPfMmJdgzqDnfIjfgzPrU9QaoYNJntUSBcDEf5MDK8/edit?usp=sharing **StratoStar Resources for Educators:** More high-altitude balloon videos & tutorials https://www.youtube.com/user/StratoStarTV How to Start a Weather Balloon Program Guide https://info.stratostar.com/wb_guide Twitter: @StratoStar4u

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