GoPro from edge of space recovered after two years

The wild ordeal unfolded after Bryan Chan – a Stanford University alumnus – sent a weather balloon soaring 98,664 feet into space from Tuba City, Arizona, in 2013. They had attached a cell phone to the balloon in hopes of finding the camera when it landed.

“The problem was that the coverage map we were relying on (looking at you, AT&T) was not accurate, so the phone never got signal as it came back to Earth, and we never heard from it”, said the team in a Reddit post.

Spectacular GoPro footage of the Grand Canyon was finally released as it went missing after two years, which eventually reunited five friends who took this extremely rare video from the Earth’s stratosphere.

However, “TWO YEARS LATER, in a twist of ironic fate, an employee of the AT&T was on a trek when she spotted our phone in the barren desert”, trexarmsss wrote. The camera and phone was traced to the owners using the SIM card and returned.

The Grand Canyon Stratospheric Balloon Team was comprised of Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Tyler Reid and Paul Tarantino.

The video documents the group’s planning and preparation that lasted for a few months before they have launched the balloon and the equipment.

There were nearly 150 videos which GoPro Hero 3 and the Sony camcorder have recorded while the Samsung Galaxy Note II phone has taken still photos of the sceneries. The footage transports viewers from a ground view to a bird’s eye view perspective that showcases the incredible view of the Grand Canyon from the edge of space.