Anyone looking at these photos would assume they came from a satellite or airplane. They were actually shot by an engineering student with an inexpensive camera and a balloon. About $320 based on todays currency rates. He used GPS to track and recover his equipment after it returned to earth.
Smart kid. I like the circuity he designed.
Two Canadian teenager did that this year, too.
And yes, in each case, it is pretty impressive. Awesome kids!
I am curious.
Neat!
Wow, I didn’t realize we could launch stuff that heavy into orbit!
Yes. I read that the MIT group coordinated with U.S. air traffic control. There was also a Romanian guy who sent a lego space shuttle into space on a weather balloon (with a camera). He had so much difficulty with Romanian air traffic control that he moved the launch to Germany instead.
http://inhabitat.com/lego-space-shuttle-boldly-goes-where-no-toy-has-gone-before/
Not sure if serious…
impressive though i think his claim on hours spent may be boastful.
accounts of earlier efforts, some very sophisticated, seemed to have taken lots of time.
Pretty incredible !
Its like climbing Everest or going to the South Pole, or sailing round the world single handed.
A few decades ago it would have been unthinkable !
And now here we are …
Some Spanish teens did it in 2009.
Multi-million pound…
They did it in two trips. 
Yeah, I was thinking to myself, “I don’t think they weigh that much …” before I realized I was reading a British article 
