Legacy Launch Success!

Name A Star Live is pleased to announce the successful launch of our Legacy Flight on April 28, 2007 from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Over 300 guests and media representatives from around the world witnessed the flawless launch of an UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket carrying our customers' star names and messages of dedication into space. Launch occurred at 8:58 a.m. MDT (14:58 GMT).

We want to thank all of our customers who joined us for the launch as well as Spaceport America, UP Aerospace, William Horton & Associates, Helping Hands, Inc., the New Mexico Museum of Space History, the Village of Hatch, the flight team from Holloman Air Force Base, the Boys and Girls Club of Alamogordo, and countless others who made this mission possible.

Legacy Flight mission patch (Click for info)

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of the launch from
UP Aerospace.

Photos from the Legacy Flight

Launch photos may be purchased at www.legacyflight.shutterfly.com (Enter the password legacyflight)

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Cannister containing disk with Name A Star Live star names and messages.	Cannister integretation into spacecraft	Launch vehicle on launcher


Launcher with launch vehicle, below	Launcher with launch vehicle	Launch pad tour


Pre-launch briefing	Viewing launch vehicle through telescopes at Spaceport America	Journalist using telesopic lens to photograph the launch vehicle


Media and guests line up to view launch	A future astronaut, perched on Dad's shoulders, views the launch vehicle through binoculars	Liftoff!


Closeup of liftoff	Legacy Flight ascent	UP Aerospace's Tracy Larson shares the joy of a succesful launch with SSI President Charles Chafer


Post-launch press conference with SSI President Charles Chafer, left, and UP Aerospace President Jeff Larson, right	Spacecraft recovery team posing next to the space vehicle at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (Photo courtesy UP Aerospace)

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