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Legacy Launch Success!
Celestis, Inc. is pleased to announce the successful
launch of our Legacy Flight on April 28, 2007
from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Over 300 guests
and media representatives from around the world witnessed
the flawless launch of an UP
Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket carrying more than
200 participants into space. Launch occurred at 8:58
a.m. MDT (14:58 GMT). The Legacy Flight marked
the first of our Celestis Earth
Rise service missions.
We want to thank all of our family members who joined
us for the launch as well as Spaceport America, UP Aerospace,
William Horton & Associates, Helping Hands, Inc.,
the New Mexico Museum of Space History, the Village
of Hatch, the flight team from Holloman Air Force Base,
the Boys and Girls Club of Alamogordo, and countless
others who made this mission possible.
The Legacy Flight was completed during the
week of the 10th anniversary of our first mission –
the Founders Flight – and we look forward
with great anticipation to the next decade of Celestis
Memorial Spaceflights. |
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Launch
Video
from UP Aerospace
(See "SL 2 mission" video) |
Photos from the Legacy Flight
Launch photos may be purchased at www.legacyflight.shutterfly.com
(Enter the password legacyflight)
Click each photo, below, to see a larger
image
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Cannister containing Celestis payload
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(2.5M) credits UP Aerospace, Inc |
Cannister integretation into spacecraft
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(2.5M) credits UP Aerospace, Inc |
Launch vehicle on launcher
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(2.5M) credits UP Aerospace, Inc |
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Launcher with launch
vehicle, below
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(2.5M) credits UP Aerospace, Inc |
Launcher with launch vehicle
Hi-res
(2.5M) credits UP Aerospace, Inc |
Launch pad tour
Hi-res
(2.5M) credits UP Aerospace, Inc |
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| Memorial service |
Bagpiper at memorial service |
Pre-launch briefing |
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| Viewing launch vehicle through
telescopes at Spaceport America |
Journalist using telesopic lens
to photograph the launch vehicle |
Media and guests line up to view
launch |
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| A future astronaut, perched on
Dad's shoulders, views the launch vehicle through binoculars |
Liftoff!
Hi-res
(2.5M) credits UP Aerospace, Inc |
Closeup of liftoff |
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| Legacy Flight ascent |
Post-launch tears of joy! |
A dream fulfilled... |
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| A family hug in memory of a loved
one |
Suzan Cooper and Wende Doohan give
the 'thumbs up' after launch |
Family member being interviewed
by CBS |
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| UP Aerospace's Tracy Larson shares
the joy of a succesful launch with SSI President Charles
Chafer |
Post-launch press conference with
SSI President Charles Chafer, left, and UP Aerospace President
Jeff Larson, right |
Spacecraft recovery team posing
next to the space vehicle at White Sands Missile Range,
New Mexico
(Photo courtesy UP Aerospace) |
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