17 year olds send Lego man into space.

[croyde]

2 Canadian kids sent a Lego man with some cameras to 80,000ft via a weather balloon and then found him a week later over 100kms from where they launched.

Great video.

http://www.thestar.com/videozone/1120776--high-sch...

[Marf]

Hehe good on em

[Eric Mc]

Now, which forum should this be in - "scale models" or "science"?

[HoHoHo]

That's bloody brilliant

[Dan_1981]

Eric Mc said:

Now, which forum should this be in - "scale models" or "science"?

Photography surely.

[Simpo Two]

No sign of the Lego pilot after 2'02" though... reckon he had his own chute and legged it.

[XG332]

Since when was 80,000ft classed as space?


"For what's it's worth, the USAF and NASA consider a person to be an astronaut if they've flown higher than 264,000 feet (50 miles). This was most relevant to people flying the X-15, which was capable of getting above that altitude"

[Eric Mc]

And the world governing body for aviation and space records (the FAI)set space as 100 km. So 80.000 feet is well short.

[croyde]

Spoilsports

[MitchT]

Ah but, a Lego man is only about an inch tall compared to a human man who may be 70 inches tall, so in scale terms he reached 5,600,000 feet.

[Eric Mc]

Didn't an English school do something simialr a couple of years ago - only their astronaut was a teddy - and he survived? Their video was impressive.

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

Didn't an English school do something simialr a couple of years ago - only their astronaut was a teddy - and he survived? Their video was impressive.

I posted this one last year:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2011/1834-video-...

About 120,000 ft.



Re the O/P: Why didn't they use a Lego astronaut I wonder?

[XG332]

dr_gn said:

Re the O/P: Why didn't they use a Lego astronaut I wonder?

Why not just send it up in a real shuttle?

[croyde]

Yeah, I did think it was a bit cruel not to give him a spacesuit and a helmet.

[The Moose]

Check out James may's man lab. Did something similar.

Very cool IMHO!

[Simpo Two]

Ha, the mission is just on the BBC TV news - only two days behind PH!!