First domestic chair in space

In 2004, artist Simon Faithfull (UK) sent a domestic chair 30 kilometres up to the edge of space as part of Artists' Airshow exhibition. Attached to a weather balloon, the chair – and his film of its subsequent rise to the stratosphere – formed an artwork called Escape Vehicle No 6, part of a series of similarly titled pieces expressing the artist's frustration with the force of nature that keeps him tethered to the Earth. In 2009 Toshiba repeated the stunt, this time using an armchair as part of its Space Chair project, an advertising campaign designed to promote their new Hi-Def video camera. In the process they created the highest Hi-Def ad in the process [ad not in the database].