Near-Space Sunset Video #2: GoPro Hero 3 Weather Balloon Launch

This is the sunset from near-space at 100,000 ft. A group of us launched a capsule with 3 GoPro cameras into the stratosphere from Itasca, TX using a weather balloon. The crazy thing is that according to what we read online, the space capsule was only supposed to land at maximum 75 miles from the launch location and 3 hours instead we woke up 14 hours later to the last GPS location showing that it landing 550 miles away in the US military’s White Sands Missile Range. So I was on the phone wit
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