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Fun Video: Lego Man in Space

By: Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor

Date: 30 January 2012 Time: 10:35 AM ET

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This Lego man took a voyage on a homemade craft that rose 15 miles high into the stratosphere.

Toronto teens Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad built a spacecraft out of helium-filled balloons and Styrofoam that carried the plastic astronaut into space for 97 minutes. To make this video clip, a sped-up version of Lego man's journey, the teens attached four cameras and a cellphone with GPS onto the spacecraft. Once the craft was released, the cellphone GPS eventually traveled out of range. However, Lego man soon parachuted back to Earth, made a safe landing, and was found in an open field 75 miles from the launch point in Ontario.

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