Their spaceship, named Spudnik2, was fashioned from a two-litre plastic drink bottle and launched from a car park, reported the Daily Mail. "The children, aged between seven and ten, watched as it soared 17 miles up - reaching 90,000ft," said the paper. "The potato was in flight for a total of two hours and 20 minutes."
Robin Smith, headmaster at Landscove C of E Primary School, near Ashburton, admitted it was a "mad idea" but added: "The children really learned a lot from the experience. It was ridiculous but really good fun."
The craft came back to earth on a parachute and, fittingly, landed in a Christmas tree plantation 140 miles away in Hampshire.
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