NEW STUFF!! Latest and Greatest Additions, Updated 4-20-07

'05 Ballooning in Fort Sumner Directory of Pictures

'97 Antarctic Ballooning Pictures

'95 & older Ballooning in Antarctica

My trip to China in 2000

My trip to Turkey in 2006

Backpacking Sept '08

Camping with Friends Sept '08

'09 Ballooning in Fort Sumner

Backpacking Aug '09

Steve McBride

I have also worked on the ill-fated Mars Observer Spacecraft :^(
, the Wind Spacecraft

and the Equator-S Spacecraft
A more detailed description of WIND is available from ISTP.

I spent several years developing a Pulse Shape Discriminator for the spectrometer that is part of the Integral Spacecraft , a collaboration with CESR in Tolouse

I developed the STE part of STEREO IMPACT , a pair of satellites to measure the Sun and Solar Wind

I'm now working on the Nuclear Compton Telescope NCT , a Balloon-born Imaging Gamma Ray Telescope

And a rocket born instrument FOXSI, an X-Ray imager to look at the solar flares.

plus developing the electronics for the STATIC instrument on MAVEN, a satellite going to Mars to measure how it loses it's atmosphere.

On the personal side, I have a family . I live with my daughter Vicki , who of course is a little angel in the eyes of her father. But little girls have a habit of growing up, graduating from high school, and going off to college and finally graduating from college.

• Steve McBride
  Space Sciences Laboratory
  U.C. Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  (510) 643-9782
  FAX (510) 643-8304
• packet radio KK6PP@WA6ZTY.#NCA.CA.USA.NOAM
  KK6PH repeater --- 1285.3 MHz ( pl 88.5) in Berkeley

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