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To infinity and beyond! Father and son team capture amazing space footage - using weather balloon they built in their back garden

Schoolboy Cameron, 12, and his dad designed and built the inflatable to carry an array of cameras and devices up to 100,000ft to capture photos of the curvature of Earth

Father and son design team Barry and Cameron Fraser are over the moon - after capturing incredible space footage from a weather balloon they built in their back garden.

Schoolboy Cameron, 12, and his dad designed and built the inflatable to carry an array of cameras and devices up  to 100,000ft to capture photos of the curvature of Earth.

A still from Cameron and Barry's spectacular space video. (SWNS)
A still from Cameron and Barry's spectacular space video. (SWNS)


Hitting the heights: Barry and Cameron got their homemade balloon up to 100,000ft. (SWNS)
Hitting the heights: Barry and Cameron got their homemade balloon up to 100,000ft. (SWNS)


Designers: Father and son team Barry and Cameron Fraser. (SWNS)
Designers: Father and son team Barry and Cameron Fraser. (SWNS)

Their device rose high enough to capture stunning footage of our planet in under two hours, before the balloon expanded and burst.

The high-tech equipment it was carrying then floated back down to earth with a parachute and landed in thick forest west of Brora in the Scottish Highlands.

Barry was delighted with the mission's success, which was supported by Inverness-based Orion Group.

He said: 'Cameron and I can't thank Orion Group enough for their financial support, as it enabled us to film the curvature of earth from the edge of space.

'All the time spent planning the mission, pouring over different prototypes and researching the construction of the payload and balloon was more than worth it.'

Alan Savage, chairman of Orion Group, said: 'Locally, we have Kinloss airbase in Moray as a strong contender to become the UK's first space port.

'You never know, in the future we might need to be asked to find engineers working on space travel projects so we thought it would be exciting to get involved.

'I believe we are also the first recruitment agency in the world to launch into the stratosphere, an accolade the team are very proud of.'