Plastic bottle takes

A group of primary school students in England make "spacecraft" from plastic bottles and Santa from potatoes. Then they took them both to the stratosphere.

Plastic spacecraft contains "Santa Claus" potatoes are brought up into the sky by a balloon. (Photo: SWNS).

Students at Landscove C Primary School, Devon County, he turned the potato into " Santa Claus " with white beard, clothes and a red hat. The " spacecraft " is made of a plastic bottle with a capacity of two liters and has a camera, Telegraph said.

Spudnik2 , the name of the " spacecraft ", is tied into a weather balloon. The group of students dropped the balloon at a parking lot near the school.

Airships flying to a height of more than 27 km explode because the air pressure inside is greater than the outside air pressure. The " spacecraft " glided down by parachute and fell in a place in Hampshire county, 224 km from the balloon launch location.

Thanks to the broadcast chip mounted on Spudnik2, the students' group determined its location with a global positioning device. They are happy to see the camera capturing many images of space.

The group of elementary school students made the potato shoot up into the sky. (Photo: SWNS).

Robin Smith, the school's principal, acknowledged that throwing potatoes into the sky was a " strange idea " but it was an effective way to teach children about the universe and the Earth's atmosphere.

" Children like to do unusual things. So if teachers ask for potatoes to be released into space, they will be excited. My students will learn a lot after this ," he said.

Watch photo videos about Spudnik2 spacecraft