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Initech

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Sat Jan 28, 2012, 06:17 PM Jan 2012

Canadian teenagers launch Lego man into near-orbit

Two years ago, we wrote about a British space enthusiast named Robert Harrison who sent a camera high into the skies to take some pretty awesome photos of the Earth. Today, we learned of a couple more space enthusiasts that recently sent their own balloon into near space, except these two fanatics are just 17-years-old, and their project included a Lego man.

The Toronto Star reports that Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad have been friends since middle school. A couple of summers ago, Ho saw a video online that showed some Massachusetts Institute of Technology students sending a balloon into space. The two teenaged boys began working on their project in September, and four months of Saturdays later, they were able to launch their balloon, with Lego man astronaut, into the skies.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/lego-man-space-mathew-ho-asad-muhammad-weather-balloon-Space-pictures,news-14015.html
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Canadian teenagers launch Lego man into near-orbit (Original Post) Initech Jan 2012 OP
What did they do with the rest of him? enuegii Mar 2012 #1
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