DIY Space Mission: First Lego Space Shuttle into the Stratosphere [VIDEO]
This one isn’t strictly ‘digital photography’ but it I’m sure you’ll forgive me once you see what it is.
What happens when you take a GoPro HD video camera, GPS unit, a lego space shuttle and strap it to a Weather Balloon filled with helium.
What happens is a spectacular video and possibly the first lego space shuttle into the Stratosphere!
Hopefully you’ll forgive me for a non strictly digital photography entry. One of the guys behind the launch is a friend and I thought dPS readers might enjoy it as it is visual and is a pretty incredible example of a DIY project which I know many readers here love.
Read the full story behind the launch here.
Update: for a similar project – check out Project Stratos-Sphere. More cool videos and still photography with a similar concept. Thanks to Matt in comments for the link.
10 Responses to “DIY Space Mission: First Lego Space Shuttle into the Stratosphere [VIDEO]” - Add Yours
March 7th, 2012 at 9:32 am
I feel i need to post here this: I saw this video some time ago, and I believe this project http://www.stratos-sphere.com/ is earlier than the one you are showing here, i think it is at least correct to mention them in your post.
March 7th, 2012 at 9:35 am
Wow… Beautiful…
March 7th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Pretty cool (both sites)! He must have super-glued that Lego shuttle together – I know they don’t stay intact like that around our house!
March 7th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
I wonder what happened when it returned to earth.
March 7th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
beautiful
saw this in google+
http://raghavendra-mobilephotography.blogspot.in/2010/07/different-shapes.html
March 7th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
As passionate as I am about NASA this is pretty amazing!
March 8th, 2012 at 9:33 am
There’s also this one that happens to have a Lego astronaut instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwLmGR6bPA&feature=player_embedded
March 10th, 2012 at 7:09 am
And…… where is the space shuttle and the GoPro now?… Moon? …..Mars? ….Saturn? hehehe
Nice project full of creativity.
March 11th, 2012 at 2:59 am
Thanks for sharing. Neat project.
March 22nd, 2012 at 12:19 am
So Cool.
You’re forgiven. This time ( C:]
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