Father and Son Send Camera into Space

[Osco316]

A father and son from Brooklyn, New York sent an iPhone into the stratosphere a few weeks ago to record a video of the earth's curvature.

The two spent eight months researching and testing their homemade craft, which was made of a weather balloon and a styrofoam case for the iPhone, before launching in Newburgh, NY.

The phone apparently braved winds of 100 miles-per-hour and temperatures as cold as 60 below zero (the iPhone was smartly packed with hand warmers).

The recorded video shows the phone reaching a height of 100,000 feet before the balloon burst, plummeting the contraption back to earth, where it landed 30 miles from the launch point, in a tree, where the father and son found it in the dark because of the iPhone's LED light.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/16/father-and-son-send-iphon_n_765369.html

The video is awesome! Check it out, they get footage from about 100000 feet up. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

 

[DTP]

Whoa, awesome stuff!

 

[Jim Morrison]

I thought it was just a normal camera. Didn't expect it to be an iPhone lol.

 

[Rici]

It is a normal camera, they only used the iPhone as a GPS tracking device when it fell down to the ground.

 

[Osco316]

Yeah, that's true. I guess I missed it the first time I read the article. A misleading title, sure, but still cool nonetheless.

 

[Jane]

that... was ****ing... AWESOME! wow! i am amazed!

 

[Jonas]

Wow, that's really cool! I wish they had picked a less cloudy day though
But yeah, awesome! My dad never did stuff like this with me when I was a kid

 

[Grandeza]

what if it hit someone when it fell back down?

edit-well i suppose it's styrofoam but i wouldn't want to be hit by it or wouldn't want it to just land on my windshield or something...

edit 2- just saw the part about deploying a parachute. My question has been answered.

 

[Pikaville]

That is pretty god **** amazing.

What a cool idea.

 

[Moozle]

So cool! That sounds like such a fun project.

 

[pickle962]

They should send a video game into space for their next project...