QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) - After months of planning, a weather balloon was released Tuesday from Quincy Regional Airport.

Members of the Quincy University Astronomy Club launched the balloon with a capsule attached to it. It also had a GoPro camera and a GPS tracking device inside.

"At 60 thousand feet the GoPro should capture the vastness and the blackness of space," Astronomy Club Member Damien Olejarski said. "We should be able to get a shot of the curvature of the earth.

"It's going to be above pretty much every single cloud layer and we're just trying to get a hold of that footage and be able to find it," Olejarski added.

Olejarski says the capsule could land a couple miles away or a couple states away, but the hope is the GPS will send back signals allowing them to track it down and find it.

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Astronomy Club shoots for the stars with balloon launch