Haggis Of The Week

To celebrate Burns Night, a haggis has been sent up to the edge of space for the first time, I learned this week.

Working in conjunction with space education and research firm, Stratonauts, a Scottish butcher, Simon Howie, attached a 454g haggis to a weather balloon and let it off. The balloon reached a height of 20 miles above the Earth’s surface with haggis attached and travelled over Stirling, Falkirk, Edinburgh, and the Pentland Hills before landing in Lauder in the Borders.

The haggis survived unscathed, but many would think that a life circling the Earth’s atmosphere would be the best place for it.