Teenager Sends Camera to Space for Capturing Pictures


Nineteen-year-old Adam Cudworth spent just 40 hours and about $600 to grab the images you see above, according to a Telegraph report. He placed the camera, a simple Canon A570, in an insulated box with a GPS device, radio transmitter and microprocessor. Then he used a balloon to send the makeshift spacecraft more than 20 miles into the sky — high enough, his photos show, to capture dramatic views of the Earth’s curvature.

The device took about two and half hours to ascend, then Cudworth used the GPS and radio transmitter to locate its landing spot about 30 miles away from his home, the Telegraph reports. Cudworth was also able to track the package’s speed and altitude using a built-in circuit board.














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