GREAT BEND, Kansas -- It gives new meaning to a burrito that's “out of this world.”
Great Bend teens Jeff Keenan and Aaron Mull are the masterminds behind the plan to send the first ever Mexican roll up into the cosmos.
“We actually saw a video at the beginning of the school year about someone sending up a camera on a balloon...and we wanted to do something creative and out there and we just thought why not send a burrito up there?” said Mull.
So that's exactly what they did. Mull and Keenan spent three months researching and rigging a seven-foot weather balloon, Go Pro camera, and iPhone. Yes, they sent Keenan's personal phone along for the ride. How else would you track a 100,000 foot journey?
“We got a live coordinate throughout the day. So once it was actually on the ground we were able to get a live coordinate through Google Maps of where it was at,” said Mull.
But would they get what they wanted? That shot that only a few have captured for themselves?
“What we really wanted was that main shot of the blackness and the sun in the background and the blue ozone layer of the earth,” said Keenan.
Mission accomplished.
For 10 hours, the burrito balloon floated through the skies. So just where did it end up? One-hundred miles northeast in Solomon, Kansas.
“It was just kind of one of those moments where, it just felt unreal. It was a blast chasing it down. It was just tons of adrenaline flowing through our bodies. It was just great,” said Keenan.
There it sat in the middle of a field.
There was only one thing left to do.
“It tasted a lot like cold ravioli. So it was good, you know,” said Mull.
To see Mull and Keenan's full video, click here.
