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Kewl.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

Meh, it's not space. Cool, but not space - they're only 1/3 of the way there.

People do this all the time - although not father and son teams usually. A lot of students have done it. Two MIT students did it last fall. I know some people at U of A working on a fairly involved one right now.

Another interesting thing is the "rockoon" - rocket launched from a balloon. Have a fairly decent sized rocket on there - figure you can ignite it at 18,000 feet or so then launch it another 15,000...pretty cool.

Yeah...upper atmosphere != space, but still cool.
I recall someone from the UK did a similar experiment a few months ago and was contacted by NASA after posting his pictures online.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

It's said this is the best amateur video of all.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

A few University of Arizona students just launched one of these this weekend. They got absolutely fantastic pictures - better than ones I've ever seen. Not the first time they've done it either, and they're planning to do it again in the spring.

Here's one of their images.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak- ... 3304_n.jpg

On a sidenote, a bunch of us at UB are planning on launching one in the spring.

cool you can see the curvature of the earth at just 18 miles up.

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