You may have seen Stanley's ascent to the stratosphere already, animated with appropriate reactions as Thomas' buddy travels 18 miles into the sky then plummets back to the ground. (Ron Fugelseth's train-launching project is "probably the coolest thing a dad can do," according to Gizmodo. I'm inclined to agree.) But Stanley wasn't the first toy to journey to the stratosphere, and we're hoping he isn't the last. Here's a great collection of sub-orbital footage from The Week. Link
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I've had a bunch of these pics for a while, and have been trying to track down the source. First thing is, they seem to be cg in origin, not the grainy black and white pics that would have been.
The Ka -7 did exist. It was smaller than this, and an utter disaster. It vibrated so badly that its first test flight was abandoned just five metres (15 feet) off the ground. After major modification it flew again.. And crashed.
But if anybody can give the true origins of these pictures, I'd be grateful... Oh.. and don't say "Dark Roasted", they also confuse fiction with reality. The curse of the web, if you see it on the web, it MUST be true.