High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High 115
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."
Re:It's been done (Score:3, Interesting)
I'd be more impressed if someone found a way to NOT get into space with a helium filled weather balloon.
Maintaining a constant altitude, and thus preventing the balloon bursting, would be very cool.
Good job (Score:5, Interesting)
Good for these kids. I don't agree that this should be big news, as this is becoming a fairly common project for advanced high school students. I mentored a team of high school students in the Kansas City area that sent up balloons last fall. They designed and built the payload, fitting all the instrumentation and cameras. One made it to 97,000 ft. The other managed to fly all the way to Illinois. In both cases the payload was recovered undamaged. They got some *awesome* video and pictures.
Re:It went sooo high... (Score:4, Interesting)
I wonder how tall you could build a tower of legos before the weight crushed the legos making up the bottom level?
Why not launch a rocket from the baloon (Score:3, Interesting)