Friday, March 16, 2012

LEGO Shuttle launched into space

How could a LEGO shuttle possibly make it into space?  Check out the following link.

LEGO shuttle

What did you learn?  How did this happen?  What did you find interesting?  Surprising?
Leave your thoughts.

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  1. Lorraine Lowrey and Jen Keyser :)March 19, 2012 at 5:19 AM

    We learned that it is possible for a LEGO shuttle to be launched into space. It happened by a helium balloon. What we found that was interesting/surprising is that the LEGO shuttle went up very high.

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    1. NATE HORNING ANd wade stengerMarch 19, 2012 at 5:36 AM

      We also found it cool that it went up high.

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    2. Rachel Lincoln and Andrea SchwabMarch 19, 2012 at 6:27 AM

      yea we we also very surprised that this 18 year old made a LEGO shuttle

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    3. Katherine SlatteryMarch 19, 2012 at 6:48 AM

      I also thought it was cool that an eight-teen year old could make something that goes up into space using a small bugdet.

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  2. learned that the flight went 115000feet up in the air. I thought it was strange at first because the shuttle made of lego but then found out it was a balloon that carried the lego ship up.

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    1. We didn't know that the shuttle went up 115,000 feet up in the air, That's cool.

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    2. Alex Stevens and Julia GlennMarch 19, 2012 at 5:27 AM

      We agree that it is strange that the LEGO shuttle made it that high up, but a huge helium weather balloon carried it up that high, taking over two hours to reach its highest point.

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  3. We learned that Lego's can stay together in space.
    It happened because this guy on twitter gave him a small budget to start a jet engine which led to further things like this. We found it interesting that some random guy on twitter gave him money to build space related stuff. We found it surprising that it actually stayed together.

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    1. Bryant Winters and Drew FitzGibbonMarch 19, 2012 at 5:29 AM

      We also found it interesting that it stayed together.

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  4. Bryant Winters and Drew FitzGibbonMarch 19, 2012 at 5:23 AM

    Whether balloons can not float into space. The kid tied the whether balloon to the shuttle and let it go and then found it with a GPS. We found the whether balloon interesting. The video was surprising.

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    1. I thought that the video was suprising and interesting also

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  5. Brooke C and Taylar HMarch 19, 2012 at 5:24 AM

    We learned that an 18 year old kid built a real working space shuttle out of legos and went into space with it. Before he built the space shuttle he use to build jet engines. This all happened when he met an Australian kid over twitter who said he wanted to go to space and he would even if he had to build the space shuttle himself. Something we found surprising is that they used balloons to bring it up into the air.

    ~Brooke C and Taylar H.

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    1. Carley Snell and Liz ScarlatoMarch 19, 2012 at 5:35 AM

      I was surprised to hear that he met an Australian kid over twitter who said that and it actually happened! That must have taken forever.

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  6. Alex Stevens and Julia GlennMarch 19, 2012 at 5:25 AM

    We learned that the LEGO shuttle was really a LEGO guy tied to a helium weather-balloon with a camera. We also learned that the "shuttle" actually rose 115,000 feet into the air, so it was, technically, in space. We found it interesting that a helium weather balloon, without any engine, was able to carry the LEGO high enough to truly be in space.

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    1. Abby Coogan and Brynn HollingsworthMarch 19, 2012 at 5:27 AM

      It never said that it was a Lego guy, it said it was a Lego shuttle.

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    2. Lorraine Lowrey and Jen Keyser :)March 19, 2012 at 5:27 AM

      We didn't know that there was no engine used to carry the LEGO shuttle high enough.

      -Jen and Lorraine ;)

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    3. @Alex and Julia
      We did not know 115,000 feet

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    4. Brooke C and Taylar HMarch 19, 2012 at 5:35 AM

      We didn't realize that it was a weather balloon and it was a shuttle not a LEGO guy tied to a weather balloon.

      ~Brooke C. and Taylar H.

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  7. Abby Coogan and Brynn HollingsworthMarch 19, 2012 at 5:25 AM

    I learned that Raul Oaida, an 18 year old is the one who launched the shuttle and I learned that the flight lasted about 3 hours and it landed about 150 miles south of were it took off.
    I happened because it was tied to a helium balloon that rose and then fell back down, he attached a video camera and a GPS to it too.
    I found it interesting that he even launched it, and that he was building jet engines off the internet before he launched the Lego shuttle.
    It was really surprising to me that he did all of this stuff at age 18 which is pretty young.

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    1. Carley Snell and Liz ScarlatoMarch 19, 2012 at 5:33 AM

      It is very young, and that's really cool that they actually tied it to a helium balloon, and launched legos into the sky.

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    2. @ Abby Cogan Brynn Hollingsworth
      I completely agree with you

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  8. Jesse Noell and Eric FishyMarch 19, 2012 at 5:27 AM

    We learned that a lego space shutle tied to a helium ballon can go into space. What we found interesting was that legos can fly into space

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    1. Brett Kron and Dylan NobleMarch 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM

      Where did he get the funding and all the other things that he got to help him make this achievement

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  9. Brett Kron and Dylan NobleMarch 19, 2012 at 5:30 AM

    We learned that the lego shuttle was a lego man tied to helium balloon. The shuttle went up 115,000 feet in the air. The thing we thought was that a helium balloon made into space with out getting stuck in a tree or something.

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    1. I was also surprised it made it to space with out hitting a tree or getting stuck in one.

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  10. Carley Snell and Liz ScarlatoMarch 19, 2012 at 5:31 AM

    We learned that Raul Oaida is an 18 year old who launched the shuttle. It haPpened because it was tied to a helium balloon. I found it interesting that they actually took the time to launch a lego shuttle. I was also surprised that it went up high.

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    1. Rachel Schiller and Hannah BasilMarch 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM

      We were also very surprised at how they actually were taking the time to launch the ship. But we were both wondering how did all the legos stay together?

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  11. Maddie Lindemann, Rheanna Barry, and Matthew MurphyMarch 19, 2012 at 5:33 AM

    We learned that the flight went 115,000 feet into the air. Another thing was that he tied the lego shuttle to a big rubber weather balloon. He got the funding from a guy that he meet over titter. What we found surprising was how he also built jet engines online before taking on the lego shuttle. .

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  12. I learned that the flight went 115,000 feet in the air. I thought it was interesting that it was made of lego and fly up in space but it was actually a lego shuttle on a helium balloon.

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    1. Saaraaa Bloeemmkerr & Alexx Anderrsoonnn.*(:March 19, 2012 at 6:30 AM

      I agree that it is interesting that the flight went 115,000 feet in the air and it was made of Lego's.

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  13. NATE HORNING ANd wade stengerMarch 19, 2012 at 5:33 AM

    I learned that a 18 year old made a giant space shuttle. This happened with a helium balloon. He is also working on another project. I found it surprising that he is only 18 and did this!

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  14. Lorraine Lowrey and Jen Keyser :)March 19, 2012 at 5:36 AM

    @ Everyone
    It did say under the video on how high the balloon went. So it did go 115,000 feet in the air.

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  15. I leaned that weather baloons can not go into space. that a 18 year old built a working space shuttle out of legos. and later let the rocket off and found it with a gps.

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    1. Johnathon,Manasa.,mattMarch 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM

      We like the gps part.

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  16. Rheanna Barry, Matthew Murphy, & Maddie LindemannMarch 19, 2012 at 5:42 AM

    @Liz Scarloto and Carley Snell
    Did you guys find it interesting that he also built engines online before building the lego shuttle. Also did you know know the height the shuttle went up to was 115,000 ft.

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  17. @ Dallas Blasek 12 I agree, I thought it was strange too that it was lego.

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  18. @ brian schraffenberg I didn't know that it went that high.

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  19. Rheanna Barry, Matthew Murphy, & Maddie LindemannMarch 19, 2012 at 5:50 AM

    @Brian Schraffenberger
    Did you find it interesting that the guy built jet engines before he built the lego shuttle. Another thing I found interesting was that he got his funding for his lego shuttle launch from someone he meet over twitter.

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  20. Saaraaa Bloeemmkerr & Alexx Anderrsoonnn.*(:March 19, 2012 at 6:23 AM

    We learned that a 18 year old built a lego space shuttle that went into space.We found it interesting that a helium weather balloon, without any engine, was able to carry the LEGO high enough to truly be in space.

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  21. Rachel Lincoln and Andrea SchwabMarch 19, 2012 at 6:23 AM

    we thought that this was really cool. i have never seen or heard of any thing like this before. i think it is so col how high the shuttle went with just a balloon.also i thought it was amazing how an 18 year old could do this

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  22. Katherine SlatteryMarch 19, 2012 at 6:24 AM

    I learned that it is possible to build a small, model rocket on a low budget and send it into space. I found it interesting that it was one hundred miles away and it did not land in trees. I wonder what websites he used to make the jet engines.

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  23. I thought it was awesome that someone who's just 18 sent something into space, but if it's made of legos i don't see how it stay together for the whole trip; that it didn't break because of pressure or heat.

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    1. Sam Gunther and Charlie RainesMarch 19, 2012 at 6:34 AM

      We also thought that it was weird that it did not fall apart in space.

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  24. Sam Gunther and Charlie RainesMarch 19, 2012 at 6:29 AM

    We learned that a lego shuttle could go into space. This happened because someone made a helium balloon that went 115,000 feet high.We thought that the guy making jet engines before making the shuttle was interesting. We found it was surprising that this person was a teenager

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  25. Maggie Hoover and Sarah ColwellMarch 19, 2012 at 6:30 AM

    We learned that a 18 year old launched a LEGO shuttle was launched into space. The shuttle was launched because a helium balloon carried it up. We found interesting that it was able to stay together for 115,000 feet in the air.

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  26. that a space lego shutel can be launched into space and that and that it went 150000 feet into the air and that the flight lasted for 3 hours

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  27. Bailee, Sydney, and LexiMarch 19, 2012 at 6:33 AM

    We learned that an 18 year old from Russia built a Lego space shuttle by himself, just by using the information he could find online. The boy got a hot air balloon and attached the shuttle to it, then he sent it up into space. It was not very surprising to us, but it was interesting.

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    1. Jenna Bertke, Cara Roche, Jordan IoriMarch 19, 2012 at 6:38 AM

      Did you find it interesting that he used to build jet engines?

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    2. Bailee, Sydney, and LexiMarch 19, 2012 at 6:58 AM

      Yes Jenna Cara and Jordan, we did.

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  28. Jenna Bertke, Cara Roche, Jordan IoriMarch 19, 2012 at 6:34 AM

    The ship got into space because it was a weather balloon full of helium. So it simply floated up into space, it took about 2 and a half hours to get up that high but the descent was faster. It also had a GPS in it so they could track it and when it came down it didn't get stuck in the trees!

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    1. @Jenna, Cara, Jordan

      Yeah, it seems like that it would take an hour to gert up in space.

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    2. Sarah Colwell and Maggie HooverMarch 19, 2012 at 6:57 AM

      It was interesting and cool that they had a GPS to track the shuttle. It's cool how it didn't get stuck in the tree.

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  29. I found it pretty amazing that the legos didn't break apart in space with a huge amount of pressure but they sometimes break apart when you barely touch them. Out of all people they teenager got fianacial support from some person on he meet on twitter.

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    1. Katherine SlatteryMarch 19, 2012 at 6:55 AM

      In space there is less pressure, not more. The legos may break apart from the lack of pressure though. I wonder if he will ever get an money for his talent other than funding to build more stuff.

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  30. I learned that an 18 year old was able to launched into space. this was able to happen because they took a helium balloon and went up to 115,000 feet in the air. The thing that I found interesting was how he was able to do this and how his parents let him do this because it must have cost a fortune.

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    1. Katherine SlatteryMarch 19, 2012 at 6:59 AM

      If he was eighteen years old and lives away from his parents in a different house or apartment then his parents really cannot do anything to him. They might be happy that he is doing this because he got funding from someone and he is building cool stuff that and learning about science.

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  31. Jonathan Finn & Brad WeidnerMarch 19, 2012 at 6:59 AM

    The spaceship got into space by being a weather balloon full of helium.This made it float right up into space, it took about 2.5 hours to get up that high. But coming down was faster. The space ship had a GPS in it so they could track it.

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    1. Brandon Gardner and Corey wilhoiteMarch 19, 2012 at 7:28 AM

      it really toke 2.5 hours?

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    2. cj siegel and derek ellisMarch 19, 2012 at 9:18 AM

      It was good but you could of put how far up in the sky it went.

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  32. Brandon Gardner and Corey wilhoiteMarch 19, 2012 at 7:25 AM

    i did not hear about a LEGO space shuttle with a gps tracker on it going into space

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  33. brady doyle,nick sferrazzaMarch 19, 2012 at 7:31 AM

    it had a helium balloon so it probally lifted up into space. it also had gps tracking divice so they can know were it is. it was interesting that it was mad out of lego all though it did not look like it was made out of lego because there were just big foam blockes that i could see not lego peices.

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  34. According to 18-year old Raul Oaida, the flight of the Lego shuttle was approxamitely 115,000 feet long. He launched it using a video tracker & GPS.-Dominic Deutsch

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    1. Kylie Lonneman and Mya HillMarch 19, 2012 at 7:41 AM

      Dominic
      We think your post was good but could have used a little more detail.

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  35. Brandon Gardner and Corey wilhoiteMarch 19, 2012 at 7:35 AM

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  36. Kylie Lonneman and Mya HillMarch 19, 2012 at 7:39 AM

    Mrs.Hoffman,
    We learned that what ever you put your mind to you can do it.It happened with a 18 year old was on the internet chat with people talking about rockets and someone gave him money to build a lego rocket ship.We thought that they couldn't launch legos into space or even reach into the air.

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    1. Erin Pegg & Chyanne BergerMarch 19, 2012 at 7:58 AM

      We like how you put what evers in your mind you can do

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  37. I think it is cool that they made a lego space shuttle and it can go in to space.

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  38. We learned that an 18 year old kid built a real working space shuttle out of legos and went into space with it.We also learned that the "shuttle" actually rose 115,000 feet into the air, so it was, technically, in space.

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  39. Erin Pegg & Chyanne BergerMarch 19, 2012 at 7:56 AM

    we learned that it has a GPS tracking system it takes 2.5 hours to go up and down it is made of a weathering balloon and has helium in it to make it float. we thought it was interesting that it could float up and actually make it so we thought it was pretty cool.

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  40. that was awsome I am going to make one i have too its my live long dream and im goning to make a lego r2d2 because i need a frend

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  41. We learned that there was a 18 year old kid who made a LEGO spaceship and it went into space by a helium balloon. I thought it was surprising that LEGOS could fly into space that high.

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  42. Rachelle Kuebel Olivia OgdenMarch 19, 2012 at 9:03 AM

    We learned that an 18 year old boy built a lego spaceship and launched it into the air. He got the money for the GPS( to track it) and the helium balloon from someone on twitter. It took around two and a half hours to get al the way up and it came down faster. T hey put it in a weather balloon and filled it with helium and attached a GPS to it to see where it was.

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    1. i dont no what a gps is tell me

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    2. Rachelle Kuebel Olivia OgdenMarch 19, 2012 at 9:11 AM

      it is a tracking device. It stands for global positioning system

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    3. ok i trust u no liying

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  43. Danny McCarthy and Matt SchapkerMarch 19, 2012 at 9:04 AM

    We learned that the flight went 115,000 feet into the air. Another thing was that he tied the lego shuttle to a big rubber weather balloon. He got the funding from a guy that he meet over titter. What we found surprising was how he also built jet engines online before taking on the lego shuttle. We were also surprised that it didn't break apart in outer space from the pressure,when sometimes it breaks when you barley touch them.

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  44. keagen gulley nathanael meyerMarch 19, 2012 at 9:06 AM

    we learnd that if u put your minde to it u can do anything.

    he got sone funding and made it in his basement.

    that he is only 18.

    i would love to go to space.

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  45. @ Simon Stuckey

    This is totally up your ally. I think you should build one. I think it would be really cool.

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  46. kaylin applegate and Jessica RentzMarch 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM

    we learned that a 18 year old was bilding this lego rocket with the help of a alstrailan man it was powered by wether ballown filled with helem. It took 2.5 hours to get up and back down. That they could make it flote.

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  47. Hannah Basil and Rachel SchillerMarch 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM

    We learned that a LEGO space ship is able to travel into space and we learned that it traveled 115,000 feet high! This happens because legos were attached to a helium balloon. It also happened because a guy gave him a budget to build it. This was super surprising to us because we didn't know it was able to stay up in the air.

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  48. nathanael meyer keagen gulleyMarch 19, 2012 at 9:10 AM

    danny i like your blog bucause it is a long and discriptive and has meant facts

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  49. Johnathon Adelhardt,ManasaTalley and matthew GarbettMarch 19, 2012 at 9:10 AM

    What we learned is that this was not his first thing he made.He also made a jet pack.this was made by a huilium ballon that could go high.What we find interesting was how you could make shuttle out of lego's.

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  50. cj siegel and derek ellisMarch 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM

    We learned that a 18 year old launched a LEGO shuttle was launched into space. It happened because this guy on twitter gave him a small budget to start a jet engine which led to further things. It went 150000 feet into the air and that the flight lasted for 3 hours. The space ship had a GPS in it so they could track it.

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  51. Danny McCarthy and Matt SchapkerMarch 19, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    @ Rachelle Kuebel and Olivia Ogden



    That is very interesting to know

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  52. Joe and Ben SchapkerMarch 19, 2012 at 9:16 AM

    It made it into space because it was a giant helium balloon with a lego guy on it. It went up a 11000 feet into the air. What I found interesting was that the person makes a bunch of jet engines. The thing that surprised me the most was that the person was only 18 years old.

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  53. Morgan Cook & Olivia GundrumMarch 19, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    A Lego shuttle could make it into space by that the gravity level is low in space and very high on earth that's why it's possible for a Lego shuttle to make it into space cause of the gravity level compared to earth and space that's why we think that gravity has something to do with the Lego space shuttle.

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    1. how does a heavy colored brick make it into space,thats what i want to know:/

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  54. Morgan Cook & Olivia GundrumMarch 19, 2012 at 9:32 AM

    @Joe and Ben Schapker

    What does the lego man have to do with anything
    just wondering...well is the lego man inside of the helium balloon or what can you be a little more detailed....:)

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  55. I learned that it has a GPS tracking system it takes 2.5 hours to go up and down it is made of a weathering balloon and has helium in it to make it float. I thought it was interesting that it could float up and actually make it so I thought it was pretty cool.

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  56. It happened because of a helium balloon. I found it interesting because the teen used a GPS tracker to find where the spaceship was, and the only help he received a certain amount of money from a man. I was surprised that it actually stayed up in the air, I didn't think that would be possible.

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  57. @Alex and Julia:
    I didn't know that either! I think that is pretty interesting, and I hope someone else will try to send a LEGO shuttle up again.

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