Saturday, January 28, 2012

Teens Launch Lego Man Into Near Space

Lego man in space moves the Web

Two teens from Toronto successfully launched a Lego figure into near space -- and launched a storm of interest on the Web.
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old classmates at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, took four months, many Saturdays, and $400 to carry a Lego figurine and four cameras miles above the earth, a project that the two did for fun, not for class.

MORE: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/lego-man-space-moves-230122438.html

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