The picture on the left is one of the middle school students making the nylon cover for both our command and payload capsules. These covers allow us to sew rings to the corners of the boxes to attach the 100lb test line from each system piece.Typically the capsules themselves are both 1 foot cubed boxes, made of 1 inch thick home insulation material covered in a thin mylar sheet. This material can then be glued, we've used hot glue and Gorilla glue. This insulation material is easy to cut inorder to made holes for sensors to have access outside the box while at the same time providing protection from the extreme temperatures of the upper atmosphere. The mylar was also used for added insulation.

The picture on the right is students fabricating the electronics flown in the command capsule. Typically we flew two gps tracking systems, temperature sensors, pressure sensor and a camera in the command box. Always mindful of weight restrictions and low temperatures we used lithium polymer batteries to power our systems. This at times required us to make voltaging regulating circuits of different values to coincide with the various devices.