Ride the American Zeppelin yourself!

Y'herd thisun?

“International competition rather than international cooperation motivated states to open terrestrial frontiers for centuries, and that motivation will have to be harnessed again for our species to permanently occupy other worlds of the solar system.”

from Reopening the Space Frontier by John Hickman

Posted February 24, 2011 10:36AM by Robert Smith

Was skimming through the magazine rack and saw that Air & Space Magazine has a feature story this month on how cool and scientific it is to ride the American Zeppelin, The Eureka From Airship Ventures.

It struck me that some readers might like to see what it is really like... so here ya go! From November 2009, a scoped video of what it is like to take a five year old up 1000 feet over Long Beach.

See it all, including a talk with pilot Kate Board and closeups of the SeaLaunch ship (now Russian owned).

This is a Flash stream, so a real computer is advised.

Click here to play

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