QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) - After months of planning, a weather balloon was released Tuesday from Quincy Regional Airport. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
\"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. <\/p>\n
\"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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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