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A view of the STS-133 vapor trail as seen from a balloon with student payload at 110,000 feet.  Yes a student payload – very cool stuff!

From onorbit.com:

Last week a balloon with a student-oriented payload shot high resolution photos and video from an altitude of over 110,000 feet of Space Shuttle Discovery as it climbed into space.These images and video were released today as part of a mission report provided by Quest for Stars representative Bobby Russell at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) at the University of Central Florida. More information on this conference can be found at http://nsrc.swri.org

Read the rest of the story at OnOrbit and be doubly-doubly sure to go to the link in the article (yeah it’s the very next paragraph) and I’ll include it here, watch the balloon pop video.

There is a Robonaut – 2 also, it’s onboard STS-133!

What a great project, wow, just wow.