The New York Times Magazine did an article on garage inventors and how they may revive the space program. It's a lot to live up to. The really awesome part is that we are (Or more specifically me in my messy garage) on the cover. I would have liked to emphasize my team members more, as "WE" got "US" here. The magazine is an insert in the Sunday paper, which has a circulation of about 2 Million. That is bigger than Popular Science or Rolling Stone that each have about 1.5 million. Unless you figure that half the NYT subscribers just toss the magazine after they read the funnies.

Read the article here

The KC Space Pirates qualifying run on youtube

This is the clip of the one hour broadcast of the KC Space Pirates on The Walt Bodine Show on the local NPR radio station (KCUR)

Listen with ITunes: Click Here

Download MP3: Click Here

Members of the 2007  KC Space Pirates Team.

Brian Turner
Richard Brull
Martin Lades
Danny Leafblad
Debbie Leafblad
Timmy Leafblad
Chad Hampy
Frank Smith
Duane Johnson

Nova Science Now did an impressive story on the elevator and the competition.
You can view it here.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3401/02.html

We knew that our hard hats were popular but I had no idea how popular. Now if I can just make that a sponsor's logo. ;)

We were also on The Science Channel in Dec but it is not streamable online. :(

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