Weird footage of lamb chop being sent into space

First, we landed a probe on a comet, now strange footage has appeared of a lamb chop orbiting the Earth after being sent into space.

The tandoori lamb snack was sent into orbit on the end of a fork via homemade helium weather balloon by four friends. Having visited their favourite curry house in order to source their desired 'astro-snack' the four mates came up with the elaborate stunt to get their photograph on the wall of Tayyabs, in east London.

Artist Nick Hearne and two others drove the tandoori lamb chop from Tayyabs, to the launch site in the Cotswolds in June earlier this year, whilst novelist Nikesh Shulka thought it might make a good vessel with which to promote his book 'Meatspace'.

A GoPro video camera with a GPS tracker was attached to the balloon, giving a chops-eye-view of the action, but lost contact with the device shortly after launch.

The friends say the tracker attached to the camera was ruined by freezing cold temperatures near the earth's atmosphere and the group thought they had lost the camera and the footage forever - and their chance of getting onto the wall of fame.

But over a month later, Hearne got a surprise phone call from a farm worker in Dorset, some 132 kilometres from the initial launch site, claiming to have found the camera.

Four months later, the friends finally got their camera back and to their surprise they found over 100 minutes of footage of the chop's journey to space.

They judge that the chop ascended 31 kilometres into the stratosphere, through thick cloud and into endless blue sky.

Their photograph now hangs on the wall of Tayyabs.

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