Lego man rockets into space on school project
Staff and pupils at Gobowen Primary School in Shropshire thought all was lost when the tracker on their weather balloon went offline.
The balloon was being used to measure temperature, wind, relative humidity, and pressure, and was equipped with one passenger – Dan the Lego man, alongside a small camera.
It was released on 18 June, and they anticipated that it would land somewhere in Derbyshire.
Contact was lost that day, but it turned out Dan had other sights to see.
The tracker came back online the following day, showing that the balloon had popped and landed in Nottinghamshire.
Video footage from the flight shows Dan rising above the Earth, before plummeting thousands of feet, and crash-landing in a quarry in Newark.
The balloon, and Dan, have since been retrieved.
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