17/11/09 - BBC Radio Leeds - A follow up with on the launch for The Sun on Local radio in Leeds. Plugged UKHAS, IRC #highaltitude, Safety, CAA and NOTAMS. BBC iPlayer From 14.40 onwards

17/11/09 - The Sun 40th Birthday Launch - A few months ago Robert Harrison (rjharrison) launched a special mission using his Icarus II payload on behalf of the British newspaper The Sun to celebrate their 40th birthday. The payload reached 33km, took some great pictures and was recovered. More information can be found on their website: The Sun. Full set of pictures on Robert's Flickr page.

8/08/09 - Bang Goes the Theory - Recreating Kittinger's 100,000ft parachute jump from a balloon 49 years ago Steve Randall and BBC One's new science show Bang Goes the Theory launched a dual payload mission codenamed XABEN 7/8 in June 2009. The main payload contained 4 HD video cameras which recorded the release of the secondary payload - a plastic model of one of the presenters 'Dallas' to simulate Kittinger's daring jump. Both 'Dallas' and the camera payload were recovered and incredible footage was recorded. More information can be found in the August issue of BBC Focus Magazine

• Bang Goes the Theory will be shown on 17th August at 7.30pm on BBC One and will also be on BBC iPlayer
• Here is the episode containing the flight:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m704v/b00m6zt1/Bang_Goes_the_Theory_Series_1_Episode_4/
• Youtube copy of flight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWATd0LRA_4