Filming the blackness of outer space using a camera and a weather balloon

[crab]

Fricken sweet!

Wierd though that it was launched in Newburgh, NY. I was born there, my dad and his siblings grew up there, and my late grandparents lived their lives there. A few days ago, I bought an airplane here in Indiana that wound up just coming here after many years there. Pretty neat that it pops up again - especially with such a neat project.

 

[rockyct]

Balloon would pop before all the battery was used up probably.

Well, it gets pretty damn cold at extreme altitudes and batteries die a lot faster in the cold. An extra battery pack would be a good thing to have.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Don't you have to get approval from the FAA to launch rockets above a certain altitude? But yeah, that would be sweet.

i think any kind of guidance on rockets is prohibited. i'm just glad the balloon didn't hit a plane on its way up or down.

 

[DrPizza]

really? it lands 25 miles away from the launch site?
shens.

If I shot the same thing to an altitude of 100 yards and it came down within 100 yards of where I was standing, would you be equally incredulous?

 

[coolVariable]

Pffft.

Forum members build ICBM

(that's after they built their own submarine)

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

If I shot the same thing to an altitude of 100 yards and it came down within 100 yards of where I was standing, would you be equally incredulous?

hardly comparable.

 

[coolVariable]

This picture is truly priceless: http://www.cphevent.com/heat1x-tycho/?p=M100P01-056-1821.jpg
some amateurs launching their rocket from their homemade submarine with a wind farm in the background!

 

[rasczak]

that was really cool. watching the clouds kinda brought me back to when i was a kid and dreamed of flying.