High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High

First time accepted submitter AbilityLiving writes "Two high schoolers have launched a Lego Man to 80,000 feet — three times the height of a jet — in a homebrew project that involved a few Ebay-purchased cameras, a giant helium balloon and a star-ship full of ingenuity."

It's been done

[Squiddie]

to death. Then again, I am more interested in FPV flights and UAVs than balloons.

LEGO

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called a "minifig". Get your terminology right, please.