If you’ve never personally been to outer space, this video is definitely worth a watch. Luke Geissbuhler and his 7-year-old son Max successfully sent an iPhone into space attached to a weather balloon. They launched from Newburgh, NY (a stone’s throw from my farm) and their craft captured the upper stratosphere, recording the curvature of the earth and the blackness of space. The coolest part is that when the balloon burst the camera parachuted back to earth 30 miles northwest of launch (spitting distance from my backyard!) and they retrieved it using the iPhone’s GPS tracking. That’s much cooler than the science fair project my dad and I built. The aquarium I designed for the Space Shuttle didn’t get picked, making the top shelf of my closet was the farthest it ever got off the ground.
