Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100327:15:46:00
I asked him what possessed him to send a point-and-shoot camera into space. >> well basically i wanted to take some pictures of my house initially and i thought these were helium balloons could do that. i just tied a camera to the helium balloon. i slept on it overnight and i decided i'd have a go at basically cutting the tether and trying to keep track of the camera and to get pictures from like an airplane really. >> it doesn't have a transmitter on it. right? the camera? >> no. the camera didn't have a transmitter on it. but inside this box here we've basically got the camera, if you like, ...
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