Homebrew Space photography

Ever fancied taking photographs from space? One of my friends was recently telling me about how he was going to take photos with a camera suspended from a kite... but this takes things to a whole other level.

The basic recipe is:

1. 1 x small helium weather balloon
2. 1 x digital camera with interval shots
3. 1 x small parachute, and a GPS tracker

And what do you get (after a whole bunch of attempts)? Something like this...

and even this

You can see even more photos over at the projects homepage. I'm envious - the photos look great - personally I rather like a lot of the pictures as the balloon is passing through the outer parts of the atmosphere.

Thanks to Geekdad and Wired for pointing this out to me.