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Father and son film stratosphere with home-made spacecraft

hypocritexposer

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This is a very neat story. I can just imagine the look on the kid's face when they found the camera and were able to watch the film. ( the linked cideo is about 7 minutes long) Enjoy!

The father-and-son team from Brooklyn managed to send their homemade spacecraft up nearly 19 miles, high into the stratosphere, bringing back perhaps the most impressive amateur space footage ever. The amazing footage starts at 2:35 minutes in the video below.

The duo housed the video camera, iPhone, and GPS equipment in a specially designed insulated casing, along with some hand-warmers and a note from Max requesting its safe return from whomever may find it after making it back to solid ground. All told, father and son spent eight months preparing for their homemade journey into space, in hopes of filming “the blackness beyond our earth.”


http://vimeo.com/15091562
 
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