Saturday, November 8, 2008

Welcome

Hello to everyone, especially my family and friends and to everyone at Brookside Middle School and Wedgewood Elementary School. My name is Robert Mullenax and I am a meteorologist for the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. I am here in Antarctica with some of my fellow CSBF employees performing the launches of three large scientific balloons. Two of the flights will be science flights carrying aloft the CREAM and ANITA payloads (see links below to their pages) and a NASA test flight of a new balloon design. Here are the links to the CREAM and ANITA pages and to the main CSBF page. The CSBF webpage for the current camapign will be updated in the next 10 days or so:

CSBF:
http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/
ANITA:
http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~anita/web/index.htm
CREAM:
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/cream/cream.html

In the next few blogs I will have some pics from Christchurch (the gateway to Antarctica and base for the U.S. Antarctic Program) and from the first few days on the Ice.

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