After eight months of practice and efforts Luke Geissbuhler from New York using weather balloon, a video camera, and an iPhone created a video by letting the balloon rise up to 100,000 feet.

Everything is recorded on a video camera. A the end the balloon bursts and the little spacecraft comes back down to earth on a parachute, landing only 30 miles north from where it started.

His two boys help him with the project and getting the thing started. You can usually see these kind of pictures only from NASA, done with million dollar equipment.

The camera used was a $260 GoPro HD Hero. It was positioned in a foam casing and surrounded by hand warmers in attempt to stop it freezing as it reached the edge of out atmosphere. The ascent was done using a weather balloon which will rise to the point where the lack of atmosphere allows it to expand to breaking point.

At its highest point the camera reach 100,000 ft and the balloon had expanded to 19 ft in diameter. Then the rapid decent of up to 150mph even with the parachute deployed. which with winds of 100mph could have carried the camera hundreds of miles off course, but luckily brought it down just 30 miles from the launch site.

The camera was tracked via GPS using an iPhone and ended up landing 50 ft up, lodged in a tree. A small LED light on the casing allowed it to be spotted late the same night, recovered, and the incredible video footage.

Brooklyn Space Program is a organization formed by a group of friends in New York City interested in scientific experiments, engineering, design and education.