Some of you may have wanted to launch your iPhone into space for various reasons.  But the guys at The Brooklyn Space Program did it for purely nerdy scientific reasons and not because it lost all their contacts and apps.  The father/son team of Luke and Max Geissbuhler attached one to a weather balloon along with an HD camera rigged up with some hand warmers and launched their Nerderiffic creation from Newburgh, NY.  It travelled above the earth’s atmosphere before bursting and falling 30 miles from the launch site.  They tracked it down with the iPhone’s GPS.

There has been much speculation as to whether or not the vessel actually made it into space, or if the whole project was a well edited hoax.  I like to think they really did it(because I’m a nerd and love this stuff) The video from the little “Enterprise” is below. Check out the photo slide show here.

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.