Up Up And Away!!!!!

National Geographic Channel has created a real-life version of the animated film Up. Launching a house thousands of metres into the air using balloons. A team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16' X 16' house 18' tall with 8' coloured weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. Using 300 helium-filled weather balloons, the lightweight building reached an altitude of more than 3000m and remained in the air for about an hour. The filming of the event from a private airstrip, will be part of a new National Geographic Channel series called How Hard Can it Be?, which premieres in the fall.