From Weather Balloons to Space Travel

When we were young, many of us dreamed of space travel. Whether we wanted to be astronauts or simply were wrapped up in the many stories in the world of science fiction, space was an obsession. To this day, if we all had the opportunity to operate, or at least own a spaceship, we would still jump at it.

Of course, many people don’t. This doesn’t stop people from getting as far into space as they can with whatever they can. Often cases, this manifests into flying weather balloons into the atmosphere as a part of a physics class. KOTA Territory News takes a look at this in a recent article titled "Student launches weather balloon to 60,000 feet.” Yasser Kishk of KOTA Territory News writes, "Tenold designed his own 8 pound payload using foam board, duct tape, hand warmers, and the equipment onboard. Most importantly to Tenold it was his design. ‘I wanted to go and do it my way, the cheapest way, the easiest way, even the hardest way…. I ended up using off the shelf components and changing them around to fit my needs.’ The balloon lifted at almost 1000 feet a minute, and Tenold could not believe it when he tracked his balloon to 60,000 feet, especially when the payload was mailed back to him.”

Who knows, this could lead to bigger and better things when he grows up. For example, consider a recent article for Popular Science titled "LOOK AT THIS FERRARI DESIGNER’S SLICK SPACESHIP IDEA.” Kelsey D. Atherton of Popular Science writes, "Sure, space travel is cool, but rarely do iconic spacecraft look like works of art. Design constraints and real-world realities leave rockets less fantastical than those envisioned in fiction, and even the beloved Space Shuttle resembled a chunky version of a terrestrial airplane. Sketches from Ferrari design director Flavio Manzoni show us an alternative type of spacecraft: sleek, elegant, and totally freed from the limitations of designing for reality. There are echoes of Manzoni’s car work here. His smooth surfaces make the Lancia Fulvia car he designed look more elegant than it should be, and they show up fully realized in his UFO sketches. His iconic LaFerrari, built with sweeping, flowing contours, has a hint of otherworldliness about it, like it was poured into shape. Manzoni’s spaceship takes that even further, with a body that looks plucked from Mercury, or like a stingray coated in quicksilver.”

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