Space Photos On A Budget

Recently, some MIT students took their own photos of the Earth's curve...

• Space photos for less than $200 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/
• Project Icarus – the cheap space camera project http://space.1337arts.com/

Further reading, mostly derived from the above links, but the Apollo stories are some of Mankind's most important, heroic and touching...

• Balloon trajectory forecasts http://weather.uwyo.edu/polar/balloon_traj.html
• The Kármán Line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
• NASA Astronaut Wingshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut_wings#NASA_Astronaut_Pins
• Apollo 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1