with that cheap camera capturing images like this, a parachute carried it safetily to earth where he followed the gps signal to find it. he may have been the first hobbyist to try this, now there are several dozen thuz yifts going after the same thrill. pictures taken aboard a space shuttle, costing nasa $400 million. getting images like these for a few hundred dollars is an eye opener. if somebody out of their backyard fancies together a device that can photograph earth from above, surely their government agencies will want access to this. reporter: a balloon camera aloft for 150 bucks, they posted a how-to for the next explorer. a bargain basement way to see the truth revealed to real space travelers. i now know the earth is round
keep costs down for future space travelers. we can see it right there, that pinpoint landing. i mean, anderson that s incredible. a thing of beauty for blue origin. i mean look at that thing. nailed that landing. so bezos described this landmark moment as, quote, the best day and talked about his hope to make space travel more accessible for all. you ve got to do it the same way we did it with commercial airline travel. you know, we are still we re not even we re really almost in the barn stormer phase, right. so this is these are, you know, biplanes and they re flying into a farmer s field and charging a small a price to fly people around for a few minutes in the air. that s what we re doing right now. but you know where that barnstorming phase leads? to 787. that s what we have to do. rachel crane has had a front