A GoPro captures a lamb chop’s ascent to space [Video]

The GoPro has shot some amazing things but not in its developers’ wildest dreams did it ever imagine this trip. A marketing team looking to promote a book titled Meat Space by novelist Nikesh Shukla strapped a GoPro on to a tandoori lamb chop and launched it into space. The team waited for the lamb chop to descend and they waited for five months.

The balloon rose at 325 metres per minute for 95 minutes before bursting and dropping over in the market town of Hungerford, West Berkshire. After it had dropped from its flight, GPS contact was lost shortly afterwards.

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The team had hoped that the GPS would at some point connect but it never did as it had been scrambled by the freezing temperatures of near space. The team gave up on retrieving both the GoPro and the lamb chop.

A month later, a farmworker contacted the team after he had discovered the chop and the camera in Manston, Dorset — some 82 miles form the launch site. The farmworker kept standing them up but finally the team got the GoPro back and it had filmed 100 minutes of footage. The team has cut down the video down to a few minutes. To see a lamb chop make an ascent through the clouds and above clouds is both amazing and an only once in a lifetime experience.