Solo Spirit Credits

Although Solo Spirit is indeed a solo flight, many people on the ground have helped make this adventure happen. Read more about the people involved in the flight on the Biographies page.

Mission Control Team	Steve Fossett, Pilot; Alan Blount, Director of Mission Control; Joe Ritchie, Recovery Director; Doug Blount, Jim Mitchell, Marie Metzer Finkelman, Jennie Ritchie
Launch Team	Dennis Brown, Launch Director; Tim Cole, Chief Engineer; Robert Ivlev, Aerobot Science Payload; Daniel Alessio, Argentina Director; Bert Padelt, Systems Manager; Francisco Fernandez, Administrative Liaison; Erick Nevels, Importer; Sergio Alberto Calderón, Customs Broker; José (Pépé) Danza, Argentina Representative; Rana Graham, Computer Programmer
Inflation Team	Ed Heltshe, John Kugler, John Lippert, Bob Ross, Red Sheese
Meteorology Team	Bob Rice, Chief Meteorologist; George Dunnavan, Assistant Meteorologist
Science Team	Ray Arvidson, Science Coordinator; Ed Guinness, Tom Stein, Margo Long, Heather Brouillet, Brian Ebel, Robert Guinness, Sarah Johnson, Stephanie Nelson, Jonathan Cameron
Public Affairs	Judy Jasper, Fred Volkmann, Sue Killenberg, Betsy Rogers, Gerry Everding, Ann Nicholson, Colleen Devereux, Jim Dryden, Jim Burmeister, Steve Kraushaar, Nancy Belt
Web Team	Susan Slavney, Anna Mracek, Stephanie Nelson, Colleen Devereux, Gail Wright, Judd Bowman. Spanish translations by Virginia Braxs.
Facilities	Bill Wiley, Tom Flaker, Rob Jacknewitz

Infrared and water vapor satellite images on the Maps pages were produced by the Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison. The sun position images on the Maps pages were generated with the xearth program developed by Kirk Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Most of the material on the Education pages was written by high school students in Mr. Nathan Peck's Advanced Placement Chemistry class at Mary Institute / Country Day School, St. Louis, Missouri.

The background image on the home page (visible using Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Navigator 4 browsers) is a space shuttle photograph of the Rio de la Plata, on the east central coast of Argentina. The photograph was taken in December 1990 from an altitude of 190 nautical miles, quite a bit higher than Solo Spirit's cruising altitude of 24,000 feet. (Earth From Space, Johnson Space Center.)