Sam the Dog gets sent into Space with a GoPro

’Sam the Dog’, the lucky mascot of English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues, was launched into space on Tuesday 5 April 2016 via a helium balloon with GPS tracking equipment and cameras. The space launch from the Midland Hotel was part of an educational science project for the children of Morecambe Bay Community Primary School. The equipment landed in a field near Burnley, but Sam had become detached during re-entry and was nowhere to be seen when his tracking equipment and live telemetry systems were recove