I remember going to the batting cages with my dad. We went to our fair share of A’s games, too. He also helped me make a Pinewood Derby car a few years in a row. To the best of my knowledge, however, we never sent anything into space. Man, what a lousy childhood. Back in August, however, the father and son team of Luke and Max Geissbuhler (age 7) did just that.
The duo attached an HD camera (in the form of an Apple iPhone) to a weather balloon and launched the thing up into the atomosphere. “It would have to survive 100 mph winds, temperatures of 60 degrees below zero, speeds of over 150 mph, and the high risk of water landing,” Geissbuhler wrote in the introduction of a video documenting the event.
And people say the iPhone isn’t rugged?
The craft all came equipped with a self-deploying parachute and a GPS device to help the Geissbuhlers retrieve it once it came crashing back to earth.
The whole thing is the product of eight months of research. Check out the results after the jump.
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