Sprint Epic gets High! (101,000 feet!!) Epic photos from space!

[Hypnotic2010]

Interesting story from SDX member thesawolf.

-GAIA-

" Well.. not all into outer space, made it to near space up to 101,001 feet. Sent my Epic (running Mammon's Bonsai DK28 rom, btw ) along with a Moto Backflip for video recording, still photos, and GPS data logging, up in a high altitude weather balloon (along with a Geocache) from North Carolina, USA Saturday morning around 933AM EST, It traveled about 124 miles away, reached a max altitude of 101k feet whereupon the balloon burst and landed safely via parachute around 1148AM. Got some pics uploading if anyone wanted to see them over at: gaia.terrasunder.org
I think my Epic is pretty damn EPIC now So.. what did you do with your Epic this past weekend?

(unfortunately it was an extremely cloudy day with some rain, sleet and then snow later on so all we have is curvature pics with clouds, but still cool nonetheless)"

Photos from the Samsung Epic

-GAIA-








The Geocaching Amateur Interorbital Alliance (GAIA)
We are an alliance of geocachers that sent a Geocache into space! (in this case, Near Space) On 18 December 2010 @ 933AM EST, we launched the third Geocache in space, but the first to represent the East Coast and tied to a launch event. (GC1BE91 currently on the ISS and GC1G3H2 on the West Coast, currently disabled, were our predecessors). At the monumentous Event Horizon! (GC2JPJK) on Saturday, December 18, 2010, 40+ people gathered in the cold (then wet) winter morning and watched GAIA launch Sputnik 2010 (GC2JPJJ) into the heavens! Included with the Geocache were two video cameras (Scott's personal Kodak Zi6 HD camcorder and Steve's Samsung Epic 4G android phone), one still camera (Steve's Motorola Backflip) and a Spot 2 Messenger (for live GPS positional tracking). And thanks to the Groundspeak founders (Jeremy, Bryan and Elias), we sent up 3 trackable Founders' Gnome Tags with the geocache! (in addition to Scott's Laika TB and Steve/Tanya's Shooting Stars Geocoin) After reaching an impressive altitude of 101,001 feet up, the balloon burst and Sputnik 2010 drifted back down to earth and landed at Plymouth, NC nearly 124 miles away from the launch site and became the first East Coast Geocache into space AND back and is available for logging right where it landed.