Back in June 2013, five friends in Arizona decided to capture some footage of space by sending a GoPro, camcorder, and phone up in a weather balloon. The team–consisting of college students Bryan Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Paul Tarantino, and Tyler Reid–built their device, calculated its trajectory, registered with the FAA to avoid interfering with passing aircrafts, and finally launched the balloon in the desert a few miles outside of Tuba City. The friends planned to track the balloon’s progress using GPS on the attached smartphone, but they soon lost contact with the locator after the device floated out of cell phone tower range.

http://mymodernmet.com/lost-weather-balloon-captures-grand-canyon-shot/