Fly 131,000 feet over Los Angeles in a styrofoam box
Colin Rich builds mini-spaceships out of styrofoam, foil, modified off-the-shelf cameras and weather ballons that carry them to the edge of space. For his third craft, the payload included sensors to measure radiation from Fukushima and pollution. It’s hipster NASA. After Rich’s prior two launches, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Energy…
