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Update #9 · May 13, 2012 · comment

 

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Memory cards courtesy of SanDisk

Ordering 25 Subway sandwiches to feed the crew

Breaking out the helium tanks

Discovery Channel doing interviews

Balloon filling begins!

Picard (and Riker and Data) getting ready to fly!

Kirk (and J.J. Abrams and Roberto Orci) getting ready to fly!

Hard at work

Last minute adjustments

Star Trek communicator buttons all taped in for the flight

Flight Director

Attaching the balloon

Almost ready!

Final countdown

Max Schlickenmeyer filming for the final video

Release!

Up, up and away

The pursuit - we had a 9 car tracking convoy, including a dedicated tracking vehicle

Inside the tracking vehicle - we had an entire car just filled with trackers on their laptops

The Jeep in safari mode

We're close! We know it's landed within 300 yards of here.

"I see it! I see it!"

We found it!

Picard's precision landing. He sure knows how to land a starship!

The picture-perfect landing from another angle

Kirk's landing

Smile for national television!

The launch crew

The launch crew (cont.)

Mission success!

SPOT tracking

Flight profile

Hard at work on radio interviews

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    Copy of the final production video of Captain Picard's historic flight into near-space

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
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    Special behind-the-scenes footage of Captain Picard's historic flight into near-space

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    *JUST ADDED* We're going to fly a few Star Trek communicator buttons in the capsule. You'll get one of these special Star Trek buttons that have been to near space on a mission with Picard and Kirk! INCLUDES shipping. (In the backer updates, we'll post a photo of the 25 buttons that fly while they're sitting in the capsule as proof that they went on the trip.)

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
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    "Producer" credit in the video which will be uploaded to YouTube and Vimeo and spread across the web

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    "Executive Producer" credit in the video which will be uploaded to YouTube and Vimeo and spread across the web

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    An invite to the actual launch that will take place in central Illinois

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    We're sending both the USS Enterprise D with Captain Picard on the bridge AND the original USS Enterprise with Captain Kirk on the bridge into space at the same time -- this is a dual mission! If you contribute $500, you will get the actual Captain Kirk doll that goes up into space! Imagine the bragging rights of owning a Captain Kirk doll that has been to the edge of space!

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
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    Get the actual USS Enterprise NCC-1701 model that is featured in this launch and video and goes up into space with Captain Kirk. This is a model of the brand new and updated NCC-1701 featured in the 2009 Star Trek movie.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012