Lego shuttle launched into space

Source: bigpondnews.com

An Australian entrepreneur has teamed up with an 18-year-old amateur space buff from Romania to launch a Lego space shuttle into the stratosphere.

News Limited reports Steve Sammartino and Oaida Raul launched the small model using a weather balloon to an altitude of almost 40km.

The shuttle was launched in Germany on December 31 last year and landed in a field 241km away.

A camera was attached to the Lego shuttle to capture the journey, which was intended as a tribute to the now defunct US shuttle program.

Sammartino and Raul have reportedly teamed up again for another secret 'mini project', which is being crowd-funded via Twitter.

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