Kid Genius: Sends MIT's Admission Letter to Space

What was your mood when you got accepted into college? For most people, it was an exciting moment to celebrate, but for the new MIT freshman Erin King, she took her admissions letter, rocketed it into space, and filmed it for you to see.

It has been MIT's tradition to send their admission letters to students in tubes, according  to Chris Peterson, the Institute’s counselor for web communications. To celebrate 2012 as the anniversary of an old MIT balloon hack, the admissions team told Early Action admitted students "to hack the tubes somehow.” They created a blog, Hack the Tubes 2012, to collect their responses, and King’s idea won.

Just 16 years old, Erin King worked with her father to launch the tube into space on January 16th at around 1 p.m. from Lumpkin, Georgia. From launch to landing, the entire flight lasted for about 2 hours, reaching a maximum altitude of 91,000 feet. With GPS-equipped ham radio transmitters, King was able to track the tube from the ground, which later helped her find it after landing nearly 80 miles away on south of Cordele, Georgia. Take a sit as she takes you in this marvelous experience to space. All things said, we congratulate you, King: Happy class of 2016!

We also recommend watching: "Virgin Galactic Commercial Spaceship: Experience Space Travel" and "Aidan Dwyer: 13-Year Old Disrupts the Solar Energy Industry".

Kid Genius: Sends MIT's Admission Letter to Space

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also known as MIT, is an American private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.