Dad Sends His Son’s Toy Train to Space, Creates Short Film Showing the Journey
Dad Sends His Son’s Toy Train to Space, Creates Short Film Showing the Journey
Dad Sends His Son’s Toy Train to Space, Creates Short Film Showing the Journey
Michael Zhang · Sep 21, 2012
Sending a camera up to the edges of space on a weather balloon has been done quite a bit now, but perhaps none of the projects have been as creative as Ron Fugelseth’s effort. Ron worked with his 4-year-old son to give his son’s favorite toy train Stanley a fun and exciting ride to space. They built a rig consisting of a weather balloon, a styrofoam box, an HD video camera, and an old cell phone for GPS. Stanley was then attached to the outside of the box using a rod, positioned so that the camera would be perpetually pointed at Stanley with the world in the background.
