Space tourism is becoming all the rage, and not even LEGO escapes the trend. a fan sent thousand figures at 33 thousand meters high, everything being recorded in a spectacular video.
Of course, we are exaggerating: it is not even the limit of space, the so-called Karman Line located 100 kilometers above sea level. But it doesn’t stop being an extraordinary landscape for the adventure of the “Legonauts”.
The author of the flight was the Slovak Dominik Matusinsky, CEO of the Kreativ Gang, and the plan worked out perfectly.
This is how the flight of the thousand LEGO figures was made
For this he used a high-altitude balloon, a 3D printed space shuttle, made of a composite of lightweight carbon and stainless steel, and a thousand LEGO astronaut figures.
They were sent to heaven from the airport Male Bielice, in Slovakia, last May 20.
All the pieces came together tight to resist the ravages of the wind. Two light cameras were added to capture the flight.
In accordance with tech blog, The thousand minifigures were not uploaded in a single flight, but in three separate ones.
Finally, Upon reaching 33,000 meters above sea level, the balloon burst, but the space shuttle and the LEGO pieces went down peacefully with a parachute.
The plan architect’s balance sheet
“We wanted the LEGO figures to be visible high up in the sky, not stored inside a space shuttle,” Matusinsky explained, quoted by Universe Magazine.
“But getting the figures to stay attached to the space shuttle after the balloon burst was a huge challenge. After all, during the free fall stage before the opening of the parachute, They experienced speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour. story.
The video records were made with two cameras: one followed the crew from the cockpit, and the other captured a panoramic shot of the entire rig.
In the photos and videos you can see extraordinary shots of the Earth, in addition to the figures.