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Teens send Lego minifig into space

  • Nannan
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  • Jan 25, 2012
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  • LEGO, News,
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  • 8 Comments

    • Two 17-year-olds from Toronto made a balloon to fly a minifig and camera 24 kilometers into the air. Check out the news article for photos and a video of this amazing feat.

    Via Toys N Bricks

    Nannan posted this entry on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 8:48 pm. Posted in the category LEGO, News You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    8 Responses to “Teens send Lego minifig into space”

    1. blake Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 3:25 am

      Very cool! I wonder how far down range the rig landed and what they used to track the landed rig, a phone?

    2. NickBrick Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 7:27 am

      That’s incredible.

    3. tiberium blue Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 7:45 am

      Someone should do this with the travelling classic-castle fig.

    4. CatJuggling Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 7:48 am

      That’s amazing! Quite the insipiration. I’ve gotta show my kids.

    5. Blego7 Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 8:19 am

      That is the best thing I have read all week.

    6. Morgan19 Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 9:29 am

      What a wonderful story. Make sure you watch the video, too; the shots of it going up past the cloud cover and then with the earth’s curvature behind it are just crazy!

    7. Tromas Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 9:40 am

      @ Blake – The article said that they did use a GPS enabled cell phone to track it. But they also used a weather balloon tracking site which estimates the landing area based on current wind direction etc. It ended up landing 122km from where it was launched.

    8. irtristan Says:
      January 26th, 2012 at 4:23 pm

      It is really impressive and even how he got it to all float was even more Impressive