7岁的Max和他的爸爸Luke有一个共同的梦想，希望能探测太空。和许多有梦想的人不同的是，他们真的做了。今年八月，这对父子用一个气象太空气球、一台HD高清摄像机和一部iPhone手机自制了一个太空探测设备，拍下了太空中的美景。

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In August 2010, we set out to send a camera to space. The mission was to attach a HD video camera to a weather balloon and send it up into the upper stratosphere to film the blackness beyond our earth. Eventually, the balloon will grow from lack of atmospheric pressure, burst, and begin to fall.
It would have to survive 100 mph winds, temperatures of 60 degrees below zero, speeds of over 150 mph, and the high risk of a water landing. To retrieve the craft, it would need to deploy a parachute, descend through the clouds and transmit a GPS coordinate to a cell phone tower. Then we have to find it.

在2010年八月，我们出发去把摄像机送入太空。这项任务是把一个HD高清摄像机系在一个太空探测气象气球上，放飞到同温层上面，拍摄地球外面的黑暗。最终，气球会因为大气压力爆炸，开始降落。它需要熬过每小时100米的风速、零下60度的低温、超过150的时速以及水上降落的高风险。为了设备能被取回，它需要打开降落伞穿过云层下降，把GPS坐标发射到手机基站，然后我们必须要找到它。

Needless to say, there are a lot of variables to overcome.

不用多说，有太多的情况需要我们一一克服。

After 8 months of research and testing, we checked the weather patterns, picked our day, and drove to Newburgh, New York to launch.

在八个月的研究和测试后，我们检查了天气状况、选好了日子，开车到纽约的纽堡去放飞。