Space Video Footage From Camera Attached To Weather Balloon

by Scott Beale at 8:01 AM on September 29, 2010

Luke Geissbuhler and his kids attached a HD video camera to a weather balloon and launched it into space from Newburgh, New York, sending it into the upper stratosphere where recorded the “blackness of space” at 100,000 feet before the balloon burst sending it back to Earth where it was recovered.

via Photojojo & Lori Dorn

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