Toronto High School Students Send a LEGO Man Into Space

By EDW Lynch on January 27, 2012

Toronto high school students Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad tethered a LEGO figurine to a weather balloon and sent it 80,000 feet above the Earth (to be fair, still within Earth’s atmosphere). The cameras in their homebuilt craft captured the remarkable view from the stratosphere.

via Geekosystem & The Gaurdian

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