Amazing Homemade Space Photos
Who needs a Space Shuttle? Amazing pictures of Earth captured with balloon and duct-taped compact camera
The beauty of this image taken high above the planet would make NASA proud. But it didn't take millions of dollars of technology to capture. Just a little ingenuity using a standard digital camera duct taped to a helium balloon and floated into the sky.
Space enthusiast Robert Harrison managed to send his home-made contraption 22 miles - or 116,160 feet - above the earth's surface from his back yard. Harrison used GPS tracking technology similar to an in-car sat-nav to follow its progress - and an attached radio transmitter to find it when it parachuted back to earth.
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