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It is 60 below zero at 97,000 feet but University of Michigan students studying aerospace don't mind. With a payload of scientific instruments and video cameras they launched a weather balloon into near space late last week.

Many of these students will go on to design and engineer satellites for NASA, Boeing and Lockheed-Martin but until then they learn, test and find out how hard it is to launch, chase and recover a balloon after it explodes in near space and returns to earth

http://tinyurl.com/MichiganGoesUp