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I think we're going to miss regular manned space flights. The US has been putting people in space on a fairly regular basis for more than 40 years. And suddenly we have no capability of doing so on our own. It is good to see NASA continuing with the highly successful robotic missions, though. They certainly do provide more bang/buck. But there is something of a romantic in me, I guess, that regrets the loss of regularly sending people beyond the environment which created us.

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I can totally see the string.

So if you do something like this, how do you get the footage back? How do you keep track of where the thing lands? A Go Pro camera can't broadcast to the ground from the edge of space so...???

>> ^therealblankman:

So if you do something like this, how do you get the footage back? How do you keep track of where the thing lands? A Go Pro camera can't broadcast to the ground from the edger of space so...???


I see in YT description it mentions use of a Spot GPS, I would guess that is how they track its location once it touches down.