(P0sted 4 December 2015) This ABC story and video (also see below) about a Cecil Plains, Queensland teenager who has build his own telescope, does astro-photography and launched a balloon with camera to the ‘edge of space’ is worth reading / watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSJHLvx5kEc
As an aside, the balloon did only reach 33 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. 100 kilometers is the officially defined lower limit of space though. That does not detract from his achievement.
