Hobbyist Shoots Photos of Earth from Space With Cheap Camera, Weather Balloons and Duct Tape

(ABC News) - A typical space shuttle mission flies 200 miles above the earth's surface and returns beautiful pictures on the way, but it involves 1,500 people, puts six or seven astronauts at risk and costs, depending on who's doing the counting, close to half a billion dollars. Robert Harrison got some pretty good pictures, too. He did it with a weather balloon, a used digital camera he picked up on eBay and some duct tape.