Bitter Jester Creative, Inc, the official documentary crew of the Spaceward Games, is working on a full length documentary about the competition.
Here are a few clips from the project.
(click on the images to watch the video clips)
Project Overview
"This clip is just a snippet of the many complexities involved in the
competition and serves as an introduction to both the visionary future
and hard realities of this fast-paced and sometimes hazardous challenge."
Character Introduction
"This clip introduces some of the participants involved in
the Spaceward Games and encompasses just a handful of people we have
interviewed. Less a cohesive narrative and more a slice of the various
personalities we will follow throughout our documentary, this piece is
the first step in telling this incredible story."
Special thanks to Chicago video production company Bitter Jester Creative for letting us share these videos!
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 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 
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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
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 The mirrors that later went onto our mirror frames and probably ended up breaking.
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 Our mirrors at the 2006 competition.
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 Our mirror frames.
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 These are our 2006 solar cells.
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 Our 2006 solar panel.
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All 15 mirrors lined up at the farm days before the 2006 competition.
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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. :(
Check out the links page for more news coverage.
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This is the work area during the 2006 competition.
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This is the qualifying area. while we were waiting. |
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 There were a lot more people that were not at the competition that made this possible.
Names from left to right
Danny
Curt
Brian
Rich
Lindsey (bottom)
Crystal
Max
Timmy
Debbie
Jeffery
Misc. Kid
Terri
Clair
Martin
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This is full battle dress for Day 1. We added the extended driveway reflectors on day 2. |
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Here is where we did most of the work on the climber during the competition. This is not yet full battledress. |
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 This is the mirrors sitting across from the lights they compete with. It depends on how you measure the efficiency but one mirror is equal to up to 2 of the lights in the foreground.
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