Recent content by Hollywood

Wow, thanks for all the responses! Beagle123 is right, this is a very active web forum! To answer some of your questions: 1. Yes, I'm using a weather balloon. One can buy balloons with varying burst diameters. The more one fills it on the earth surface, the faster it reaches burst...

I am now starting to post my progress to launch a latex weather balloon into "near space" which is approximately 90,000 - 110,000 feet. The weather balloon will carry a spacecraft, consisting of a foam lined cardboard box, carrying a GoPro Hero 2 HD Video camera to record the blackness of...