B. Chrenko’s scientific contributions

The project skBalloon aims to construct and launch near-space balloons (Nobuyuki et al, 2004) connected to a pay-load being able to transport various instruments as CCD cameras, different detectors or commercial load to the earth's stratosphere in approximately 40 km height above the ground. The project intends mainly to raise awareness and interest about space sciences within broad public and remind them on importance of space exploration. Com-pared to many other countries Slovakia lag behind during last years in this research field with few exceptions. This should be changed in near future by a Slovakian coop-eration agreement with the European Space Agency and activities of the Slovak Organization for Space Activities.