Teenager captures stunning photos of Earth from space using a
homemade spacecraftSeptember 9, 2012 16 Email article | Print
article What where you doing at the age of 19? Smoking pot?
Snorting weed? Dancing to Metallica? While I don’t know what you
were doing at that age, I do know what you weren’t doing —
snapping awesome photos of our planet from outer-space using
something you built buying parts off eBay. Adam Cudworth, on the
other hand, is a different story. Adam Cudworth, a nineteen year
old engineering student at Nottingham University, built a
homemade spacecraft consisting of a Canon A570 digital camera
put in an insulated box containing a GPS chip, radio
transmitter, and a self-programmed microprocessor. Cudworth then
attached his contraption, dubbed HABE (High Altitude Balloon
Experiments), to an air balloon and launched HABE into space
where it captured NASA-quality photos of Earth from a height of
110,210 ft (roughly 20 miles above ground). Once HABE landed
back on Earth (after the balloon burst i