GoPro Lost After Being Sent Into Space Found Intact Two Years Later With Amazing Footage

#1

Bryan Chan of Stanford University sent a GoPro and a phone with a GPS tracker into the stratosphere in a high-altitude weather balloon on 8 June 2013 to gather data for his dissertation.

It was supposed to be a 2 hour job but as Bryan told ABC News it didn't pan out that way.

"The GoPro and phone was projected to land in an area with cell coverage, but the problem was that the cell service coverage maps we relied on weren't accurate, so the phone didn't have signal as it came back to Earth. We couldn't get the text it was supposed to send with the coordinates of where it landed."

#2

Fast forward a couple of years and a hiker in Arizona found the wayward GoPro in the desert near the Grand Canyon. The hiker worked for a phone company and managed to take some info from the sim card which eventually led to Bryan receiving his GoPro back, complete with immense footage of the Grand Canyon.

#3

And without further ado, here is yee archive footage. It's pretty special.