Throwback to the time I sent a clarinet into space last year.... @TheIET and @BeanoOfficial ran a joint competition asking kids to design an object they’d take to Mars that they couldn’t live without 🤷🏻‍♀️
The winner, Elin, designed this amazing clarinet! So we built it and sent it to the edge of space using a weather balloon 🎈 🌏
Elin was even drawn into the @BeanoOfficial on an adventure with Dennis and Nasher and her modified clarinet design 🎶🪐
Easily one of my maddest and most amazing days as #IETYWE 🤩🚀
You can watch the fantastic @IETtv video here:
At around 35km high the balloon popped and it started to fall back down to Earth 🌍 We then drove across the country to track it down 🚙
Thankfully it survived the fall and we got some beautiful footage, including the unbelievably cool photo of it against the curvature of the Earth
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