{"id":1838,"date":"2012-11-12T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1838"},"modified":"2012-11-12T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:44:03","slug":"us-students-send-hamburger-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/us-students-send-hamburger-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"US students send hamburger into space"},"content":{"rendered":"
Felix Baumgartner has been in the news a lot recently after he successfully completed a skydive from 24 miles up in the air.<\/p>\n
This is undoubtedly an impressive achievement, as it shows the limits the human body can be pushed to.<\/p>\n
However, a group of Harvard students have proved they can innovate on a much smaller budget, as they sent a hamburger 19 miles into space for just $1,000 (£628).<\/p>\n
Called Operation: Skyfall, it saw five young men place the meal in a Styrofoam shipping crate and attach it to a 600-gram weather balloon filled with helium.<\/p>\n
Thanks to a GPS monitor fitted in the device, the burger was recovered after its descent, some 130 miles north of where it was launched.<\/p>\n
The only problem was they had to varnish the meat to make sure it could handle the extreme weather conditions, which means that no one could eat it afterwards.<\/p>\n
Posted by Samantha Thompson
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