Oct 23, 2010

Father and son launch an iPhone and HD camera into space, take amazing video

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/10/17/father-and-son-launch-an-iphone-and-hd-camera-into-space-take-amazing-video/
This puts any science project you have been a part of to shame, period. A father and son team, members of the larger Brooklyn Space Program, put together a balloon to travel into space which rose to a height of some 100,000 feet (nearly 19 miles) before coming down.
In the balloon was an HD camera that took a video of the entire trip which lasted more than an hour. An iPhone was also placed in the balloon, and the father and son used its GPS capabilities to later find the balloon which landed 30 miles from where it was launched.
Luke Geissbuhler and his son, who is just seven years old, claim
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