Posted on 01/27/2012 10:45:27 AM PST by Razzz42
A challenge usually left to NASA eggheads or PhD students was conquered by two Toronto teenagers earlier this month when Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad sent a Lego-manned flight capsule into space.
The two 17-year-old Agincourt Collegiate Institute students completed their year-long mission two weeks ago, successfully sending a balloon carrying a Lego man and a small Canadian flag out of earth's atmosphere.
The unit was launched from a park near Ho's east-end home and ascended 80,000 feet before the balloon popped. The Lego man and his cargo fell safely to earth, with the help of a homemade parachute, where it landed in a Peterborough field...
(Excerpt) Read more at toronto.ctv.ca ...
It's a really big sky.
Was that a UFO or the Moon at the 1:00 and 1:20 mark?
Well, it did make it out of the troposphere but now where near out of the stratosphere.
I was wondering the same thing myself especially since the new Moon was this past Monday so all we should be seeing is a crescent Moon.
http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases_calendar.phtml
Canadian kids now has a better space program than Obama does
Lego Man, is not alone.
Lets not get carried away. It was a camera in a box with a lego man holding a CDN flag walking a little plank.
Not exactly the second coming of the space shuttle..
The video they showed on The National the other night was pretty good for such a low rent ‘craft’ though..
Video of balloon fill and launch of record breaking trans-Atlantic flight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I9T7zDZaFQ
Thanks for the link! The package was a whole lot smaller than I imagined. Putting a 2 meter transmitter, GPS and battery into such a small box was an amazing feat.
The GPS and transmitter (and even the battery) you can buy from this website.
http://www.bigredbee.com/
I don’t know what the laws are in Canada, but in the US, you are supposed to notify the ATC before launching weather balloons, etc.
It shouldn’t count if you don’t achieve orbit.
That must be Galileo, Newton, and Thor - god of thunder.
I think the kids did alright on a $400 budget. Cell phones are cheap and application(s) software is usually free.
Wonder if they check the weather conditions for upper altitudes that day since their project didn’t drift that far.
They’re lucky the EPA didn’t charge them with attempting to pollute space.
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