A British team is celebrating the launch of a paper airplane into space.

Steve Daniels, of Devon, John Oates, the Registry website and Lester Haines started the project “revival of the British Space Race”.

The aircraft was in the room done by a helium balloon and released at 90,000 ft (27,400 m) before the balloon exploded and parachute to earth.

On his way down cameras took pictures of the Earth in what are probably the first project of its kind.

The plane, called the Vulture 1, and two cameras were retrieved intact on the balloon about 20 miles from the launch site, 100 miles west of Madrid in Spain.

The span of 3ft-level, made of paper and straws in paper, took a year perfectly.

Its tracking device, triggering mechanism and camera systems were all produced with the help of advice from readers technology website The Register and defense technology company Qinetiq.

A tube of cardboard formed part of the trigger mechanism and the cameras were kept from freezing with pocket warmers.

Both the aircraft and the balloon was tracking systems to make the team in order to find and retrieve the awesome pictures and video.

The idea for the project £ 8000, code-named Paris (Published Paper Flight Into Space), joined by the readers of the site.

Mr Oates, 39, from London, said: “We were looking for something fun to do, and readers came up with the idea of the paper plane.

The team was concerned that the plane needed about 90 minutes to descend on 28 to make October, could come to hundreds of miles from the launch site.

In fact, both the aircraft and balloon landed only 23 miles away, in a forest. The only damage was a small hole in a wing of the aircraft.

Mr Oates said: “I thought they would find a good day.

“It was a rather remote part of Spain and we just missed a reservoir and a lion enclosure at a safari park, so we were pretty happy.”