Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast for today calls for a sunny day, with a high temperature of sixty degrees.
In the City of Whitewater today there will be a meeting of the Parks & Recreation Board at 4 p.m. The agenda is available online.
On this day in 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into orbit. Sputnik was about the weight of an average man, and completed roughly fifteen orbits of the earth each day. The New York Times reported on Sputnik is a story entitled, “Soviet Fires Earth Satellite Into Space; It Is Circling the Globe at 18,000 M.P.H.’ Sphere Tracked in 4 Crossings Over U.S.”
Decades later, the Soviets are gone, but the fascination with space exploration continues. An American father-and-son team from Park Slope, New York recently launched their own camera into space, to a height of nineteen miles, carried aloft on a helium balloon. A balloon, an iPod, an HD camera, and a parachute: they’re the ingredients of a remarkable story of ingenuity. They have a video recording of their balloon’s preparation and flight:
Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.
Link: http://vimeo.com/15091562.
Simply remarkable.