“The BV Space Program launched a weather balloon carrying the Space Panther One (a styrofoam cooler approximately 1.5 feet square covered in Gorilla tape and filled with recording devices) at 7:55am on March 2,2013. It traveled 251.03 horizontal miles and landed in the northern Nevada desert at approximately 1:25pm. It was the Space Panther One’s second voyage to space. It was retrieved at 2pm on March 5, 2013. The craft averaged 45.64 horizontal miles per hour, at times reaching speeds of up to 100 mph. Peak altitude is, as of now, unknown. Mission objectives included testing the functionality of solar panels in space, exposing a variety of plant seeds to cosmic and solar radiation to test effects on growth, capturing high-resolution still images in space, capturing high-definition video from peak altitude, eliminating the camera fogging experienced in previous missions, and recording temperature and humidity data from high altitudes. The craft traveled approximately one-tenth of the way across the United States and soared approximately 80,000 feet above the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.” —BV Space Program
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