Penair School students send helium balloon into space
Children from a Cornish comprehensive school's engineering club successfully launch and recover a helium balloon, which takes pictures from the edge of space.
Children from a Cornish comprehensive school's engineering club launched a helium balloon which reached the edge of space.
The balloon, launched by the students from Penair School, had a payload containing a camera and GPS tracker.
The helium balloon reached an estimated altitude of 120,000ft (36,000m) and took pictures showing the edge of space, staff from the science college said.
Staff said the balloon and its equipment travelled for two-and-a half hours from Bodmin Moor in Cornwall to Dorchester in Dorset, a distance of about 100 miles (160km).