Father-son experiment brings back video from edge of space

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This shit is tight...peep the video...

http://www.king5.com/news/Father-son-experiment-brings-back-video-from-edge-of-space-104618899.html



BROOKLYN, NY – A father and son have climbed to the edge of space – or at least their homemade spacecraft did. And they have the video to prove it.
Yahoo! News reports Max Geissbuhler, 7, and his father loaded the weather balloon with a video camera, an iPhone and GPS equipment. It was all placed in specially insulated casing along with some hand warmers.
After eight months of preparation, they launched their craft in from a Brooklyn park in August. It took a little over an hour for the craft to float about 100,000 feet into the sky before the balloon popped. The craft floated back to earth via parachute.
Max and his dad found it 25 miles away, stuck in a tree. The video camera inside recorded some impressive images of the curvature of the earth and the blackness of space.
Below is the video of the amazing adventure.
 

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thats fuckin sick all my dad used to do with me was make me clean our dirty ass back yard and beat the shit outta me.
 
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that shit was ill.

this reminds me of the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound without a vehicle (Joseph Kittinger). In 1960 when NASA was testing the effects on the human body they sent a lone man in a air balloon like that, which reached to the outer atmosphere (102,000 feet). Before it popped he jumped off with a parachute. He free falled for over 5 minutes, thus traveling faster then the speed of sound. That must have been an incredible fall!
 

BASEDVATO

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Why do we even need space shuttles... we just use balloons.



I'ma by some weather balloons and strap to my lawn chair... see you in china Mike!