Pair of Canadian teens launch Lego man into space!

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"Two Canadian teenagers have sent a Lego man into the outer reaches of the Earth's atmosphere using a home-stitched parachute and equipment found on Craigslist.

Two weeks ago, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached the plastic figurine replete with maple leaf flag to a helium balloon, which they sent 80,000 feet into the air.

The pair managed to capture the entire journey into the blackness of space, including the descent, which lasted 97 minutes, using four cameras, at an entire cost of just £254."

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Oh my god thats amazing! ;D It kinda scared me at the end though cause it looked like a weird alien life form found it and started playing with it :o!- We shall never know ;o