LEGO Minifig At The Edge Of Space on A Balloon Two teenage
students build a balloon, mounted with four cameras and a LEGO
figure, and launched it. Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched
a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras.
It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing
footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three
times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft.
Their jerry-rigged contraption recorded the Lego man’s journey
from a soccer pitch in Newmarket to the stratosphere — high
enough to see their two-inch astronaut floating above curvature
of our planet, clutching a Canadian flag with the blackness of
space behind him. The project cost $400 and took four months of
free Saturdays. It wasn’t a school assignment. They just thought
it would be cool. “We didn’t really believe we could do it until
we did,” says Ho. More info about the story can be found here,
photos here