First "Lego Man" In Space

[Hakaider]

Two high school seniors from Toronto, Canada have recently sent a 2 inch Lego figure into near space. 17 year old Mathew Ho was inspired to to build his own weather balloon, after he saw a video of a weather balloon being sent to space by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He asked his friend & classmate, Asad Muhammad to help build the contraption, and they scoured Craiglists, and the internet for the parts for their contraption. It would end up costing them $400, and four months of free Saturdays. Equipped with a GPS system, their craft had climbed up to 80,000 feet within one hour & five minutes, before the balloon had exploded. (It took 32 minutes for the "Lego man" to descend into Earth.) The balloon was equipped with 4 Canon cameras, (Which were programmed to take pictures every 20 seconds without stopping) and the footage was downloaded into YouTube. (Their "Lego Man" space video has gone viral within a matter of days.)


You can read more here:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/112 ... etres-high



Here's the the footage of the 1st "Lego Man" into space on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... QwLmGR6bPA

[Eric Renderking Fisk]

My son is going to be so pissed because he wanted to do that first...