Fantastic. If I had a hat to take off, It\'d be for these two. We need more of this type of stuff and more Teddy bears, if we\'re already on the subject.

This baloon only reached the stratosphere, not space. A balloon is limited in its maximum altitude by atmospheric buoyancy, they cannot reach space. This isn\'t slashdot or a daily newspaper, we don\'t need sensationalist headlines.

amazing project! on a seven year old kid, this is the kind of seed that most probably will spark the curiosity that made man reach for the stars. Kudos for dad and the school behind it.

This is nothing New I have been doing this for over 22 years now, we recently for a group of several hundred Boy scouts! check out the video at,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ0IT4ZwtSo or a flight for several thousand High School Students at, the students surrounding the launch site are the ones just involved with the liftoff, the rest are inside the auditorium, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcLZh4LhzLY
And our main page for our space program. http://www.qsl.net/wb9sbd/educators.html
Enjoy

This is great, because it just shows what everyone and anyone can do if they put their common sence forward. The brill thing is, we generally have most of the hardware in our homes to do the same. The thinking out of the box, is putting random everyday products together and creating a spaceprogram project for less than £1000!.

Now why could we not do things like this in science classes at school?. I guess, with everyone trying this globally, we would end up with a lot of space debris, and problems for national aviation airways.

Still, watching this gives inspiration of vision, in what we as mere humans can do if we really started to think spacially!.

What a beautiful father-son moment!

Fantastic! Now I want to do this!

Facebook user - That\'s the beauty of a headline...it grabbed your attention and got you to read the story. Unfortunately, your reading of it was poised to find error and approached from the stand point of a cynic. Here\'s my thing, I love the edge of space and would rather see pictures at the edge of space than from space. The first caption clearly says, an image of the darkness of space. If you thought a father and son launch a video camera into the vacuum of outer space rather than even into low orbit...than shame on you.

Great job you guys.

Amazing. I was fantazing about doing something similar to this when I was still a kid. But we did not have video cameras then.

I really enjoyed this report and video, and just read the comments to see the expected sour, po-faced, immediate reaction from our nit-picking friends. Maybe the usual one, \'facebook user\' should have realised that most readers would have known beforehand that a \'baloon\' [sic], couldn\'t reach an airless zone, but still would watch the video. Great stuff Luke and Max!