Nikon D300s travels to the threshold of space, survives to share the outcomes

In case you are going to visit the difficulty of sending a camera to the sting of space, you would possibly in addition send one capable able to doing the trip justice, right? That hasn’t always been the case with similar DIY attempts (for obvious reasons), however the team behind the so-called Cygnus “spacecraft” decided to head all out once they sent their weather balloon / beer cooler contraption aloft this month to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Consequently, going all out meant sending a Nikon D300s DSLR equipped with Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens, which manged to capture some stunning pictures just like the one you notice above — although some got a piece obscured by ice build-up. There’s more where that came from on the Flickr link below, and you’ll try out a video of the launch after the break.

[Thanks, Udi]

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