Two teens from Toronto, Canada, successfully launched a Lego figure into near space. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old classmates at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, took four months and $400 to carry a Lego figurine and four cameras 78,000 feet above the earth on a homemade weather balloon.
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This was all over the news, the kids have been treated as heroes, but aviation authorities are less than thrilled ...
http://www.thestar.com/article/1123187--aviation-experts-worry-about-lego-man-copycats
These experts are complete arses if they think this is the first time it's been done. It's the first time I've seen a lego man launched, but this has been done many times.
It is a veritable craze. There have been school and college projects, amateur photographers, TV shows, IT news websites and the list goes on. And that's just the people launching cameras into space. As well as using weather balloons for meteorology and hobby photography they get launched for all sorts of other reasons.
If those aviation "experts" did a little search on the internet they'd soon find that they are a few years late for the party.
I saw these kids on the news here in Toronto too. I think this was a great project for them. They learned a lot along the way and they were able to gain some publicity around their results. It's way better than hanging out at the mall, that's for sure.
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