Take a look at his cool photo from space (h/t Jules Crittendon):
Taken by the Space Shuttle? A weather satellite?
Nope, a camera stowed in a beer cooler flown into space by a helium balloon:The two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, they filled a weather balloon with helium and hung a styrofoam beer cooler underneath to carry a Source: HolyCoast.com RSS Feed
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