News LEGO Canadian Astronaut Makes Debut in Space

[Scruce]

Canada joins the space race with one small step for a LEGO man

Two Canadian teenagers have sent a Lego man into space using a home-stitched parachute and spare parts found on Craigslist.
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached the two-inch astronaut clutching a Canadian flag to a helium weather balloon, which they sent 80,000 feet into the air - three times the height of commercial jets cruising altitude.

The pair managed to capture the entire 97 minute journey which began on a football pitch in Toronto using four cameras set to take photos every 20 seconds, reports the Toronto Star.

Their footage shows the Lego man spinning at an altitude three times higher than the peak of Mount Everest, before the balloon bursts and he starts to plummet.

We never knew it would be this good, Ho told the Star.

According to the report, the two students met in middle school after Muhammad\\\'s family had just emigrated from Pakistan.

Source.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/MQwLmGR6bPA

All I can say is that the poor LEGO man must be lonely out there, time to send the lego girl.

 

[Luke Skywalker]

:jawdrops::jawdrops: That "LEGO" man looks familiar..

 

[jedidia]

They didn't even give him a spacesuit!

Otherwise, well done guys! really well done! :thumbup:

 

[SiberianTiger]

We have been there first, anyway! :lol:

 

[jedidia]

We have been there first, anyway! :lol:

Although it would seem that these boys built the balloon by themselfes, not bought an old one. That is quite impressive.

Plus, LEGO! :lol:

 

[SiberianTiger]

Although it would seem that these boys built the balloon by themselfes, not bought an old one. That is quite impressive.

The article says it was a "helium weather balloon".

 

[C3PO]

We have been there first, anyway! :lol:

It was claimed on Danish TV that the first man on Mars was from Denmark. :lol:

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040108a.html