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Originally Posted by rachelholladay
Was that you towards the end of the video shooting the ballon to get it down from being stuck in the tree?
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Yeah, but I wasn't shooting the balloon, or parachute, or the payload, and certainly not Einstein! I cut the limb they were hung up on and brought the whole package down together. You can see the limb come down at the end of the video. I hit it each time but it took 4 shots to cut it in two since it was about 3/4" in diameter. I could have shot the suspension line between the payload and the parachute but that would have left the balloon, the parachute, and most importantly Einstein in the tree and we couldn't leave Einstein behind!
BTW: Galileo is already in pilot training for the next launch!
