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Saxe Friends, Both 12, To Launch Weather Balloon Into Outer Space on Saturday
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New Canaan’s Henry Benton and Peter Vigano together made a compressed gas Ping Pong ball launcher when they were in the third grade. As fourth-graders, the classmates created a computer game and as fifth-graders, a camera. Last year, as a sixth-grader, Henry built a computer. Then one day last summer he had an epiphany while watching a science TV show “where they were testing the durability of action cameras,” Henry recalled Thursday afternoon from a STEM room at Saxe Middle School during an Open Lab period, his pal Peter standing nearby and the pair of them wearing new, matching shirts. “There was one story where the action camera fell when someone was skydiving and I thought, ‘Why not a weather balloon if they’re that durable?