Harvard University students launched a hamburger into space in a bid to explore the fun side of science and break out of the monotony of education.
Harvard juniors Renzo Lucioni, Nuseir Yassin, Daniel Broudy, Jamie Law-Smith and Matt Moellman overhauled the definitions of the term space food after they successfully put a hamburger into the lower reaches of the atmosphere with the help of a helium balloon.
The five youngsters conducted their groundbreaking space experiment in the field of fast food with the help of a local hamburger company in Massachusetts. The project was sponsored by eatery b.good burger, which the students called as "Operation Skyfall: First Hamburger in Space."
The helium balloon with the burger was launched into space Sturbridge and reached a maximum altitude of 30 kilometres into the earth's stratosphere. The students had also fixed a camera in the balloon to capture its journey into space.
The video, which has been shared on YouTube, shows the hamburger taking off from the earth to enter the stratosphere, before it fell back to earth at a speed of 150 kmph, landing 130 miles away, somewhere in north of Boston.
"School just got a bit repetitive," said Yassin to ABC News, saying the monotony in their education urged them to come out with "purely a fun project."
