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Most of my recent blog posts have dealt with introducing you to newly announced and released cameras, but I thought I'd take a break from new product posts to share an interesting story about some enterprising students in Beaufort, S.C.

The Beaufort Gazette Web site reports that the high school students attempted to take photographs of space using a digital camera hauled about 110,000 feet above the earth by a weather balloon. They packed the point and shoot camera in Styrofoam with a radio transmitter and a satellite GPS unit, attaching the entire package to a parachute. Once the camera reached its maximum altitude and the weather balloon deflated, the students hoped the camera would float back to earth with the parachute.

Unfortunately, soon after launch, the radio and GPS signals were lost, and the students could not find the camera after it returned to earth to recover it.

The students are hoping to raise enough money to make another try at the experiment.

Students Hope to Carry Digital Camera Into Space originally appeared on About.com Digital Cameras on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 12:10:04.

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