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The below story on sending a camera to space I can relate too as Cheap Charlies spent $1200 USD on a Nikon D90 with the, goal of making the pictures that we shoot of a much higher caliber. In addition the main reason that we bought the D90 was the fact of being the only The below story on sending a camera to space I can relate too as Cheap Charlies spent $1200 USD on a Nikon D90 with the, goal of making the pictures that we shoot of a much higher caliber. In addition the main reason that we bought the D90 was the fact of being the only DSLR that shoots HiDef movies that we are just starting to take and you will see more of them on the Cheap Charlies site in the coming days as well.

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M.I.T. undergrads shoot a US$150 camera into space


You don't always need an expensive professional dSLR to capture awe-inspiring images. Sometimes, a basic Canon A470 point-and-shoot, a little ingenuity, and a beer cooler are all you need. That is what two M.I.T. students used to capture images of the Earth from space, well, actually the upper atmosphere; technically, it wasn't high enough to be space.

Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh, M.I.T. students, had a goal of flying a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the earth, they named it Project Icarus. Without having a NASA-size budget for a rocket, they opted for the more cost-effective method of filling a weather balloon with helium and suspending a Styrofoam cooler underneath that held the camera. They also placed some instant hand warmers inside the cooler to try to keep the camera and its battery from freezing.