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Teddys in space

This is brilliant - the first teddy-naughts


"Teddy-nauts" see the curve of the Earth. The toys were launched on a helium balloon by schoolchildren working with the Cambridge University Spaceflight team. The educational project saw the bears reach 30km on a two-hour, nine-minute mission which landed near Ipswich.

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