{"id":14103,"date":"2010-10-13T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14103"},"modified":"2010-10-13T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:49:57","slug":"father-son-launch-hd-camera-and-iphone-into-space-using-balloon-nasa-expected-to-call-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/father-son-launch-hd-camera-and-iphone-into-space-using-balloon-nasa-expected-to-call-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Father-Son Launch HD Camera and iPhone Into Space Using Balloon, NASA Expected to Call Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15091562?portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"549\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15091562\" class=\"external external_icon\">Homemade Spacecraft<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3539560\" class=\"external external_icon\">Luke Geissbuhler<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our inner Space Bastard will not stop smiling at this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The team was headed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukegeissbuhler.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Luke Geissbuhler <\/a>and his 7-year-old son Max, who found the camera about 30 miles from the launch site in upstate New York. At its peak, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2010\/10\/13\/father-son-team-launch-balloon-with-hd-camera-iphone-into-space\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">the balloon reached an altitude of about 100,000 feet<\/a> and battled 100-m.p.h. winds before it burst, sending the camera and iPhone hurtling back to earth at rates of 150 m.p.h. A specially designed parachute attached to the capsule eventually slowed it to about 15 m.p.h.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to learn how they did it so that you can do it yourself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynspaceprogram.org\/BSP\/Book.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">they&#8217;re writing a book<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Please recall, faithful reader, this is not the first non-government funded pictures of space.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=6999\">Taking Pictures of Space: V-2 Rocket vs 18 Year Olds with Balloons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Official site:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynspaceprogram.org\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/www.brooklynspaceprogram.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15091562\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/spaceiphone.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"We can see The Future from here.\" width=\"550\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/spaceiphone.png 550w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/spaceiphone-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/time\/status\/27238192392\" class=\"external external_icon\">@time<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urlesque.com\/2010\/10\/12\/father-and-son-launch-camera-into-space\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">urlesque<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo. Our inner Space Bastard will not stop smiling at this. The team was headed by Luke Geissbuhler and his 7-year-old son Max, who found the camera about 30 miles from the launch site in upstate New York. At its peak, the balloon reached an altitude of about 100,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,81,8,43],"tags":[3255,3429,176,238,3430,469,1944,1481,237,475],"class_list":["post-14103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-space","category-technology","category-tutorials","tag-a-fine-ship","tag-brooklyn-space-program","tag-diy","tag-earth-orbit","tag-homemade","tag-iphone","tag-space-bastard","tag-spacephone","tag-spaceship","tag-tweet-find"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14103"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14111,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103\/revisions\/14111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}