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Re:MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget. by gjm11 on Sunday September 13, 2009 @05:52PM (#820634)
It's a bit of a stretch to call 20 miles up "space".
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Re:MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget. by andreyf on Sunday September 13, 2009 @05:55PM (#820637)
Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space#Boundary
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Re:MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget. by rbanffy on Sunday September 13, 2009 @07:43PM (#820762)
Come on. The sky is black, the ground is blue...

And its farther from the ground than I ever was.

Let them brag. If more people build simple affordable stuff that go higher than common aircraft and give them a taste of what space is, I am fine with it. It's a step in the right direction.

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