School pupils are trying to track down a teddy bear sent flying into the upper atmosphere for a science experiment.
Bradfield Bear was launched on a high-altitude weather balloon from Lymington, Hampshire, two weeks ago by Year 7 and 8 students at Walhampton School alongside the Southampton University Spaceflight Society.
The little bear, along with the university team’s toy badger Bill, soared up above the clouds and reached the stratosphere but then broke off from the balloon, and it is believed to have landed somewhere near Henley-on-Thames or Reading.
The weather balloon and the badger were safely recovered in a field near High Wycombe.