One day driving home from work I got the idea that I needed to combine something my wife likes with something that I enjoy doing. That idea lead me to PROJECT REDBEAR. The goal is to drag a red teddy bear up to 100,000 ft and have it jump out of a capsule much like the Redbull project. The goal is to take this teddy bear and the publicly it generates to raise money for animal shelters to help pets (the wife portion). The slogan for the jump coined by my wife is "The leap of love". One day I am trying to determine some of the aspects of tracking the balloon and a separate bear when I come across Babbage .I was shocked...... someone in the UK had already beaten my bear to the edge of space. Little did I know that I was in a space race and that I had lost. htt