This is cool & cheap, but it's not "space." Space is 100+ km altitude. The importance of these stratospheric balloon flights is the demonstration that you don't have to be a government to do such things. After WWII, most everybody got 'stuck' with the BIG & EXPENSIVE way of thinking about space. BUT modern microelectronics are so small, reliable & inexpensive that we can now do tiny & cheap, and put our own micro-payloads into space - even beyond Earth orbit. Just search "Microlaunchers".
this guys success at launching something into space,(on a shoestring budget i might add,) is proof positive that space travel doesnt need to be ridiculously expensive, or be riddled with 'red tape' & bueracracy. well done rob, you're giving us the stars!!!! :)
Robert, congratulations on a job well done. Can I ask, how far did the balloon travel laterally and did you recover it? Thanks. Peter, from Toronto, Canada
Hi! I'm a student in Arizona, and we just launched our first balloon yesterday. Your pictures look so much better than ours even though we made it over 96,000 feet. Any suggestions?
My hero! NASA, ESA, JANA wait years to do missions. As a hobby this man did. LOst of folks are doing it. If we are going to leave earth and do it affordibly the pioneering spirit willget us their. Take notes NASA....
I really want to launch a balloon myself but have been advised to seek permission from the civil aviation authority and, in case of being near to one of their installations, permission from the millitary too! Does anyone have information regarding the legality and applying for permissions? I'd also be very keen to contact Robert Harrison for his experience. If anyone has helpful information or experience please contact me though YouTube email - or reply directly to this post. Thanks!
Great work Mr Harrison. I messed around a little with Kite Photography many years ago. But this is mind blowing! In a class all its own!Again great video.
I am not putting him down!! I am just stating a _fact_. I have done this twelve times myself, ten of those times were done with my school over the course of a few months. Our highest altitude was 94,000 ft (still a bit lower than Harrison's balloon reached). I thought you had the idea that he was the first person to accomplish this, and I thought that you were unknowingly putting down a lot of people's efforts. Now do you get it? Jeeze.
Weather balloons are sent up without any string. Though string is very light, 20 miles of it is quite heavy. He tracked the balloon with a GPS device.
@hofnerman1 sun light effect on the camera. usual stuff. take a picture of something with the sun slightly inside of the picture and you will see [and in this case, even a lamp]
:D
anyway, AMAZING shots O_O thats a hell of a cool camera now, the only amateur camera that was in space XD
First amateur camera in space? Uh, no. Far from it. This has been done by amateur scientists for over a decade...all with inexpensive materials and your typical point-and-shoot camera. It's a fairly popular hobby.
Google "near-space photography" "JP Aerospace" and "weather balloon photography".
Heck, there's even a crapload of near-space balloon videos right here on YouTube!
Breathtaking images. The music matches perfectly the sentiment of the video and adds that little bit extra. All of this imagery from a small camera .........
I always wanted to do this but you actually did - superb.
If you have time between three kids etc could you post how you did it we'd ALL be very grateful -including the ATC permissions you had to obtain, of course. I've tried kites, model aircraft but space that's what we want.
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Well its nice....not. Now imagine u r in a plane and you see a balloon being suck into the engine of the plane...next you'll be screaming when the plane went down.
That was only an example of what bad things might happen. Heres another example say there is drive who was driving in the town, then suddenly out of nowhere a object smash into his car, shock he jerk his hand stering right into a bunch of school chlidren. Or the item might fall right into your head.
Robert Harrison might be smart enough to at least find out about air traffic, but do u wish to bet those other people who going to copy his work gonna check air traffic or check risk assesment?
Actually, Robert Harrison "copied" other people. He is not the first person to ever do this...AT ALL. Sending weather balloons rigged with cameras to the edge of space has been popular among amateur scientists for around 20 years. He's only getting all this attention because NASA liked his photos. It's nothing new.
Not only is this a very common hobby, but weather balloons are launched daily from cities all around the world. I've never heard of someone getting hit by one.
He did not invent anything, so no one is going to copy him. Launching weather balloons rigged with cameras to the edge of space has been popular among hobbyists and amateur scientists for about 20 years. NASA liked his photos, and that's the only reason why he is getting all this attention. It's nothing new.
Also, weather balloons are launched from populated places all around the world every single day. I have not heard of anyone getting hit by one.
@firefox1278 he doesnt just release the balloon wherever and whenever. he has to get authority from the civil aviation and stuff.i heard the guy talk on the radio today.
@firefox1278 Plane engines are prepared to suck harder things than a balloon and a photo camera, even geese, and (even thoughf it seems less important) hail storms... it's the camera that would be in trouble, not the plane ;)
fucking awsome job dude you should be very proud of yourself and your accomplishment. doing for $700.00 dollars what nasa can't do with a multi billion dollar budget. You should be in guiness book of records for first civillian unmanned minature space flight which actually produced amazing quality pictures. NASA EAT YOUR HEART OUT.
@preslley because nasa steals that money for black projects soon they will ban that activity you will see, they don't want people to do things like this cause it will show the truth about nasa black projects
wow i must to admit this is a very good idea.... i bet NASA can´t believe it... However, this craft baloon it was a whole successful. Perhaps next time you can try with a video camera mate!! :)
Robert Harrison is NOT the first person to ever do this, by far. He is only getting all this attention because NASA liked his photos. Launching weather balloons rigged with cameras to the edge of space has been popular among hobbyists and amateur scientists for some twenty years now. He did not invent anything or do anything that has not been done before.
NASA is not "that" impressed because taking photos of Earth with a balloon is not their main goal.
Col. Joseph Kittinger jumped from 102,800 ft in a high-altitude scientific balloon back in 1960. It is currently the highest and fastest (614 mph) free fall to date. There are a few other people attempting to break his record, one is even attempting to do it this year.
LOL, I can't believe I spelled your username "iwantlearnenglish". Did you notice that? I must have been thinking of something weird while I was typing.
But, on my other reply, I spelled your username correctly. Weird...
I looked through the comments and noticed there actually is another user called iwantlearnenglish. I think you replied to hims on one of his comments too.
Anyway, I looked up Col. Joseh Kittinger on YouTube after you told me about him. That's pretty cool and everything, but what I said before was that I hoped some average Joe would do it. Someone not backed by the Air Force or Nasa.
If Average Joe could do it then I'd be inspired. :-)
Really an awesome video man but i have some concerns, I saw some jet streams from airplanes on the up there. Did you have some sort of a launch license for this, cause it seems to me you are launching this from an urban area with lots of air traffic coming trough.
In an unlikely case of scenario if wouldn't want to be in a plane on a collision course with your remarkable and outstanding apparatus :)
NASA spends millions on space travels and the images are of poor quality, but this man has spent only $ 700 and showed the world excellent images, thanks Robert Harrison ....
comentário totalmente sem sentido, além de ser copiado de outro site (hahahahahahaha). Segundo "seu" comentário a NASA deveria abolir o programa espacial e fazer fotos com balões de hélio. uahuahauhauahuauahua. Além do principal foco da NASA não ser fotos, a NASA têm fotos belíssimas...pensa um pouquinho antes de postar!
@preslley because nasa steals that money for black projects soon they will ban that activity you will see, they don't want people to do things like this cause it will show the truth about nasa black projects
NASA images are of POOR quality??? You're look at the wrong sources for NASA images if you really think that. And what NASA does is much more that simply take pictures from space, what this man has done is great, but it does not compare at all to a real space program.
NASA wasn't created to take pictures. NASA was created to design rocket boosters and control satellite traffic. The nice photos of space and the Man of the Moon are just incidental public relations stunts to obscure the real purpose.
@marioaugustoregolima NASA's images are of high quality, but taking pictures is cheap and trivial. What costs the big bucks is developing and utilizing the capability to put large payloads into space (not the stratosphere); maintaining and inhabiting a space station; building and operating unmanned spacecraft such as Juno, Curiosity, the MER rovers, MASSENGER, etc.; aeronautics research; astrophysics missions like Hubble, or the JWST; earth monitoring satellites; and so on.
@marioaugustoregolima That said, doing something like this is a fun technical challenge, and the beautiful images are very rewarding. But don't disparage NASA because they use much more money, because they do immeasurably more than take pictures.
I want this video on my GD910 unit.
reubenshephe25 1 month ago
This is cool & cheap, but it's not "space." Space is 100+ km altitude. The importance of these stratospheric balloon flights is the demonstration that you don't have to be a government to do such things. After WWII, most everybody got 'stuck' with the BIG & EXPENSIVE way of thinking about space. BUT modern microelectronics are so small, reliable & inexpensive that we can now do tiny & cheap, and put our own micro-payloads into space - even beyond Earth orbit. Just search "Microlaunchers".
YodaWhat 1 month ago
@YodaWhat but if you can see the world like that its awesome
1177aj 1 month ago
borriiinnnggg\!!!!! x
Mrsweirdfish10 1 month ago
This could fit even in nasas budget.
SCAREDBANANA 2 months ago
shit was that still on a piece of string at 5:00?
finkployd4658 2 months ago
this guys success at launching something into space,(on a shoestring budget i might add,) is proof positive that space travel doesnt need to be ridiculously expensive, or be riddled with 'red tape' & bueracracy. well done rob, you're giving us the stars!!!! :)
ChemicalMikeUK 2 months ago
helium filled baloon + parachute = cheap skydiving!!!
theobald0 3 months ago
where did you get a piece of string that long?
BilivianRagamuffin 3 months ago 2
Where are satellites?
SuzLa1 4 months ago
what camera did you use?
ersalanni 5 months ago
What is that? A plane? Sht, my camera. NOO!
TheOcMaster 7 months ago
6:04...i want that as my desktop wallpaper :)
RandomVids863 8 months ago
Could I do this myself?
TTFLS 8 months ago
What was his helium balloon made of? What was the tissue?
Cabia2425 11 months ago
mute, sigur ros, spliff. Great video.
TommyCipriani 1 year ago
wooow thats insane hahaha
DORUKOZKAN 1 year ago
inconcidable
MrJoseph027 1 year ago
Robert, congratulations on a job well done. Can I ask, how far did the balloon travel laterally and did you recover it? Thanks. Peter, from Toronto, Canada
manwhosoldtheworld2 1 year ago
Hi! I'm a student in Arizona, and we just launched our first balloon yesterday. Your pictures look so much better than ours even though we made it over 96,000 feet. Any suggestions?
pjwho 1 year ago
to think that all you needed was a helium balloon, some( a lot) string and a camera to prove that the world was round lol
Reallaty 1 year ago
parabens!!!! maravilhoso essa viagem......
40cicero 1 year ago
My hero! NASA, ESA, JANA wait years to do missions. As a hobby this man did. LOst of folks are doing it. If we are going to leave earth and do it affordibly the pioneering spirit willget us their. Take notes NASA....
navalink 1 year ago
I really want to launch a balloon myself but have been advised to seek permission from the civil aviation authority and, in case of being near to one of their installations, permission from the millitary too! Does anyone have information regarding the legality and applying for permissions? I'd also be very keen to contact Robert Harrison for his experience. If anyone has helpful information or experience please contact me though YouTube email - or reply directly to this post. Thanks!
PerussiProinde 1 year ago
Great work Mr Harrison. I messed around a little with Kite Photography many years ago. But this is mind blowing! In a class all its own!Again great video.
le238man 1 year ago
@le238man
Nothing new. It is not in a class of its own. Search "high altitude balloon photography amateur".
norman4lyf 1 year ago
@norman4lyf So what? It was still well done! It never fails that someone will put someone else down no matter what!
le238man 1 year ago 4
@le238man
I am not putting him down!! I am just stating a _fact_. I have done this twelve times myself, ten of those times were done with my school over the course of a few months. Our highest altitude was 94,000 ft (still a bit lower than Harrison's balloon reached). I thought you had the idea that he was the first person to accomplish this, and I thought that you were unknowingly putting down a lot of people's efforts. Now do you get it? Jeeze.
norman4lyf 1 year ago
This is crazy!! I wonder, How did you get camera back?
atillayayla2456 1 year ago
was it on a string all the way? how did you get photos back?
davejohnduke 1 year ago
@davejohnduke
Weather balloons are sent up without any string. Though string is very light, 20 miles of it is quite heavy. He tracked the balloon with a GPS device.
norman4lyf 1 year ago
I can jump that high
dtiydr 1 year ago
Good Job !
asecret0430 1 year ago
Best shots right at the end. Whats that round thing @6:12 ?
hofnerman1 1 year ago 2
@hofnerman1 sun light effect on the camera. usual stuff. take a picture of something with the sun slightly inside of the picture and you will see [and in this case, even a lamp]
:D
anyway, AMAZING shots O_O thats a hell of a cool camera now, the only amateur camera that was in space XD
SoraQuasar 1 year ago
@SoraQuasar
First amateur camera in space? Uh, no. Far from it. This has been done by amateur scientists for over a decade...all with inexpensive materials and your typical point-and-shoot camera. It's a fairly popular hobby.
Google "near-space photography" "JP Aerospace" and "weather balloon photography".
Heck, there's even a crapload of near-space balloon videos right here on YouTube!
norman4lyf 1 year ago
круто маладец
SAXRONIK 1 year ago
WoW ! Very good photos, buddy !
Next time, try to capture some UFO photos too.
:D
CydonianTR 1 year ago
Amazing! I might try it myself...
GershonB15 1 year ago
He had FAA approval
ldabeck 1 year ago 2
arturas gejus
seedah 1 year ago
High five to Robert - You have tamed your dragon!!
graceamazing1 1 year ago
nasa fail
aarreessppllaann 1 year ago
How did you get permission to fly this helium balloon, it must have been hard? When did you fly it?
I'm rating 5 stars.
PLz reply!
MrSimulatorPilot 1 year ago
When did you fly this? You were also saying that you had get pemission to fly how did you do that?
Amazing video i'm rating 5 stars.
Please Reply.
MrSimulatorPilot 1 year ago
Amazing from Canary Islands.
Mateo1796 1 year ago
...this fuckin crazy and amazing man!!..great pictures!!
critchboi 1 year ago
روعة
شكراً
alalaly1 1 year ago
Cheers mate!, I salute you for being so practical when it comes sending things to the heavens!, amazinnngggg footageee!
Moniles 1 year ago 2
Excellent video.The images are amazing, Theres something about seeing earth from space that makes me feel all emotional. Absolutely love the tunes....
Up,Up and away-hey in my beautiful my beautiful balloooooooon... lol
ppp333x 1 year ago 7
It's good to see that Robert Harrison's ingenuity isn't held back by a low budget, Very Inspiring for other Hobbyists, Absolutely Stunning! 5*****s!
TheTempestSpark 1 year ago 3
Fuking amazing!!!...
fueraconch 1 year ago
Breathtaking images. The music matches perfectly the sentiment of the video and adds that little bit extra. All of this imagery from a small camera .........
knotinn 1 year ago 5
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knotinn 1 year ago
I always wanted to do this but you actually did - superb.
If you have time between three kids etc could you post how you did it we'd ALL be very grateful -including the ATC permissions you had to obtain, of course. I've tried kites, model aircraft but space that's what we want.
Love the music at the end so apt.
solarday 1 year ago
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Well its nice....not. Now imagine u r in a plane and you see a balloon being suck into the engine of the plane...next you'll be screaming when the plane went down.
firefox1278 1 year ago
He was careful to release the balloon in an area where there was no commercial air traffic..
logolou 1 year ago 18
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firefox1278 1 year ago
That was only an example of what bad things might happen. Heres another example say there is drive who was driving in the town, then suddenly out of nowhere a object smash into his car, shock he jerk his hand stering right into a bunch of school chlidren. Or the item might fall right into your head.
Robert Harrison might be smart enough to at least find out about air traffic, but do u wish to bet those other people who going to copy his work gonna check air traffic or check risk assesment?
firefox1278 1 year ago
firefox1278:
Actually, Robert Harrison "copied" other people. He is not the first person to ever do this...AT ALL. Sending weather balloons rigged with cameras to the edge of space has been popular among amateur scientists for around 20 years. He's only getting all this attention because NASA liked his photos. It's nothing new.
Not only is this a very common hobby, but weather balloons are launched daily from cities all around the world. I've never heard of someone getting hit by one.
norman4lyf 1 year ago
firefox1278:
He did not invent anything, so no one is going to copy him. Launching weather balloons rigged with cameras to the edge of space has been popular among hobbyists and amateur scientists for about 20 years. NASA liked his photos, and that's the only reason why he is getting all this attention. It's nothing new.
Also, weather balloons are launched from populated places all around the world every single day. I have not heard of anyone getting hit by one.
dumbtreeclimber 1 year ago 2
@logolou There certainly seems to be a lot of aircraft contrails though
gettothechorus 1 year ago
@gettothechorus I think you mean "Chemtrails". Google Chemtrails
hofnerman1 1 year ago
@logolou What about all the space garbage that were dump ?
williammao888 1 year ago
ha ha ha... xD
fueraconch 1 year ago
@firefox1278 he doesnt just release the balloon wherever and whenever. he has to get authority from the civil aviation and stuff.i heard the guy talk on the radio today.
3ssm 1 year ago 3
@firefox1278 Plane engines are prepared to suck harder things than a balloon and a photo camera, even geese, and (even thoughf it seems less important) hail storms... it's the camera that would be in trouble, not the plane ;)
quickmelonkid 1 year ago 4
@firefox1278 Like birds, scientifics bolloon such as meteo and more...
frotzi67 11 months ago
NOW TRY IT WITH INFRARED CAMERA.
ICARAUSTRALIA 1 year ago
@ICARAUSTRALIA
CCDs are sensitive in part of the IR spectrum. Visible light can be blocked by a suitable filter.
Depends upon what you want to see.
pseudotruth 1 year ago
That would be awsome. Finally we could see all these flying shit nasa trying to hide.
nils4545 1 year ago
So earth is spheric, finally.. ;-)
Istianas 1 year ago
fucking awsome job dude you should be very proud of yourself and your accomplishment. doing for $700.00 dollars what nasa can't do with a multi billion dollar budget. You should be in guiness book of records for first civillian unmanned minature space flight which actually produced amazing quality pictures. NASA EAT YOUR HEART OUT.
blackchip3 1 year ago
This guy wasn't first by any means in sending up an artificial craft for imaging. Still cool of course, but calm down there blackchip3.
OAXM202 1 year ago
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firefox1278 1 year ago
@preslley because nasa steals that money for black projects soon they will ban that activity you will see, they don't want people to do things like this cause it will show the truth about nasa black projects
Mopsmops 1 year ago
@Mopsmops
Idiot conspiracy theorist!
pseudotruth 1 year ago
@Mopsmops
Some idiots will believe anything. And you're that idiot!
pseudotruth 1 year ago
Awsome idea! congrats
lawnelson 1 year ago
absolutly fab vid ..quality excellent thanx for sharing
thgilgnidiug 1 year ago
wow i must to admit this is a very good idea.... i bet NASA can´t believe it... However, this craft baloon it was a whole successful. Perhaps next time you can try with a video camera mate!! :)
iwantlearnenglish 1 year ago
iwantlearnenglish:
Robert Harrison is NOT the first person to ever do this, by far. He is only getting all this attention because NASA liked his photos. Launching weather balloons rigged with cameras to the edge of space has been popular among hobbyists and amateur scientists for some twenty years now. He did not invent anything or do anything that has not been done before.
NASA is not "that" impressed because taking photos of Earth with a balloon is not their main goal.
norman4lyf 1 year ago
I wonder how high a human can get up there in a balloon and weather he/she can parachute back down safely.
What would it cost for the average geek to launch a manned flight like that from his backyard?
Now that would be awesome to see on Youtube! Very inspirational.
manilaenglish 1 year ago
manilaenglish:
Col. Joseph Kittinger jumped from 102,800 ft in a high-altitude scientific balloon back in 1960. It is currently the highest and fastest (614 mph) free fall to date. There are a few other people attempting to break his record, one is even attempting to do it this year.
norman4lyf 1 year ago
@norman4lyf
Thanks for the info. I hope the next guy succeeds and puts the video on Youtube. :-)
manilaenglish 1 year ago
manilaenglish:
LOL, I can't believe I spelled your username "iwantlearnenglish". Did you notice that? I must have been thinking of something weird while I was typing.
But, on my other reply, I spelled your username correctly. Weird...
norman4lyf 1 year ago
@norman4lyf
I looked through the comments and noticed there actually is another user called iwantlearnenglish. I think you replied to hims on one of his comments too.
Anyway, I looked up Col. Joseh Kittinger on YouTube after you told me about him. That's pretty cool and everything, but what I said before was that I hoped some average Joe would do it. Someone not backed by the Air Force or Nasa.
If Average Joe could do it then I'd be inspired. :-)
manilaenglish 1 year ago
@manilaenglish
Oh, ok.
norman4lyf 1 year ago
nasa = fail
aarreessppllaann 1 year ago
nasa = fail
aarreessppllaann 1 year ago
Genial tu video 100%
92436839 1 year ago
Funny - this is about the nicest images I have seen taken from this altitude...and yes - that is the qualifier
good job - just saw you on the news
xXZANDER1994Xx 1 year ago
you lucky dog! Any other crazy adventerous ideas?
tat2zle 1 year ago
Really an awesome video man but i have some concerns, I saw some jet streams from airplanes on the up there. Did you have some sort of a launch license for this, cause it seems to me you are launching this from an urban area with lots of air traffic coming trough.
In an unlikely case of scenario if wouldn't want to be in a plane on a collision course with your remarkable and outstanding apparatus :)
Gvendur1000 1 year ago
very nice!
freebase001 1 year ago
NASA spends millions on space travels and the images are of poor quality, but this man has spent only $ 700 and showed the world excellent images, thanks Robert Harrison ....
marioaugustoregolima 1 year ago 23
comentário totalmente sem sentido, além de ser copiado de outro site (hahahahahahaha). Segundo "seu" comentário a NASA deveria abolir o programa espacial e fazer fotos com balões de hélio. uahuahauhauahuauahua. Além do principal foco da NASA não ser fotos, a NASA têm fotos belíssimas...pensa um pouquinho antes de postar!
preslley 1 year ago
@preslley because nasa steals that money for black projects soon they will ban that activity you will see, they don't want people to do things like this cause it will show the truth about nasa black projects
Mopsmops 1 year ago
NASA images are of POOR quality??? You're look at the wrong sources for NASA images if you really think that. And what NASA does is much more that simply take pictures from space, what this man has done is great, but it does not compare at all to a real space program.
dogsbd 1 year ago
@marioaugustoregolima
NASA wasn't created to take pictures. NASA was created to design rocket boosters and control satellite traffic. The nice photos of space and the Man of the Moon are just incidental public relations stunts to obscure the real purpose.
atwaterpub 1 year ago
@marioaugustoregolima NASA's images are of high quality, but taking pictures is cheap and trivial. What costs the big bucks is developing and utilizing the capability to put large payloads into space (not the stratosphere); maintaining and inhabiting a space station; building and operating unmanned spacecraft such as Juno, Curiosity, the MER rovers, MASSENGER, etc.; aeronautics research; astrophysics missions like Hubble, or the JWST; earth monitoring satellites; and so on.
Tyrannobeast 8 months ago
@marioaugustoregolima That said, doing something like this is a fun technical challenge, and the beautiful images are very rewarding. But don't disparage NASA because they use much more money, because they do immeasurably more than take pictures.
Tyrannobeast 8 months ago
Awesome video.. never seen before...
fescarat 1 year ago
This is totally incredible!!!
carolinabrailow 1 year ago 3
awesome !
whickywhack 1 year ago
14 views in 26/03, vai estourar de views ainda... Muito legal...
targetself 1 year ago
Amazing
jtownwow 1 year ago