Four teenage Spanish students have successfully managed to capture magnificent photos of space from over 30 kilometres above Earth using a home-made, unmanned space vessel.
Proving you don’t need a billion dollar budget to accomplish such a feat, the main components of their unmanned space probe was a 117 dollar digital camera and a latex balloon!
Nerds.
So, inspired by their achievement and convinced I could out-geek a team of pimple-faced nerd burgers, I set out to one up their efforts with my own remote controlled space vessel. The first step was coming up with a superior design.
As you can see my design was fully sick and kicked their ship’s design’s ass. Unfortunately the local Tandy store didn't have the parts I needed so I had to make do with a slightly scaled back model.
It wasn’t long assembled before all systems were go and it was ready to launch. No doubt much to NASA’s embarrassment the launch was a complete success – no part of the ship exploded or anything and in no time the vessel was well over hundreds of centimetres in the air. I tracked the probe’s flight path using a pair of binoculars. Eventually the probe’s fuel supply (helium) depleted and it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. I salvaged the camera and got the film developed. Check out these awesome pics!
Here’s a great shot of Toowoomba (overcast as usual).
I was really glad that I splashed out for a disposable camera with a flash on it, otherwise this photo of the dark side of the moon wouldn’t have come out:
Here’s a fantastic photo of…errr…umm?…hmmm….
Here’s a lucky shot of The Cow Nebula.
But this last shot is perhaps the most amazing and controversial. It looks like just a bunch of stars right? Wrong! If you look really hard you will notice a mysterious blurred object in the top left corner of the photo! <Cue X-Files music> Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woooooo.
