Father and son space shot hits new heights
A 12-year-old schoolboy captured footage of the edge of space using a balloon he built in his garden
To infinity and beyond! Father and son team capture amazing space footage - using weather balloon they built in their back garden
Schoolboy Cameron, 12, and his dad designed and built the inflatable to carry an array of cameras and devices up to 100,000ft to capture photos of the curvature of Earth
Father and son design team Barry and Cameron Fraser are over the moon - after capturing incredible space footage from a weather balloon they built in their back garden.
Schoolboy Cameron, 12, and his dad designed and built the inflatable to carry an array of cameras and devices up to 100,000ft to capture photos of the curvature of Earth.
Their device rose high enough to capture stunning footage of our planet in under two hours, before the balloon expanded and burst.
The high-tech equipment it was carrying then floated back down to earth with a parachute and landed in thick forest west of Brora in the Scottish Highlands.
Barry was delighted with the mission's success, which was supported by Inverness-based Orion Group.
He said: 'Cameron and I can't thank Orion Group enough for their financial support, as it enabled us to film the curvature of earth from the edge of space.
'All the time spent planning the mission, pouring over different prototypes and researching the construction of the payload and balloon was more than worth it.'
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