DIY Space Photography

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @08:33AM from the exploring-on-a-budget dept.

Four Spanish teenagers sent a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere. The boys built the electronic sensor components from scratch. Gerard Marull Paretas, Sergi Saballs Vila, Marta Gasull Morcillo and Jaume Puigmiquel Casamort attached a £56 camera to a heavy duty £43 latex balloon, and sent their science project 20-miles above the Earth. Team leader Gerard Marull, 18, said, "We were overwhelmed at our results, especially the photographs, to send our handmade craft to the edge of space is incredible."

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BTDT? by biocute · 2009-03-18 08:44 · Score: 1, Redundant

Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment did that in August 2007.

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Re:Next time I'm on an airplane by Ninnle+Labs,+LLC · 2009-03-18 08:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

So you normally fly in an airplane 20 miles above the Earth?
Pentax K10D by Kamineko · 2009-03-18 22:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

Reminds me of this set of pictures that were taken by sending a Pentax K10D in a box into space.