Four months after a Raspberry Pi-controlled teddy bear called Babbage fell from the stratosphere, beating Felix Baumgartner's supersonic skydiving world record, an inflatable sex doll called Missy has been launched towards space.

Missy -- whose features include "three sensual orifices" -- was suspended from a weather balloon and launched from Lake Tahoe earlier this week. She ascended at a speed of nearly 400 metres per minute, reaching an altitude of 31,090 metres, shy of Baumgartner's 39,045, before her balloon burst and she was sent plummeting down to the Nevada desert.

As she free fell back to Earth, her left arm was torn off by a crosswind. She then suffered severe damage to her right leg, before her right arm detached. The triple amputee was last seen at around 27,432 metres, spiralling out of control towards a sandy grave.


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The stunt was arranged -- and captured by three high-definition cameras -- by adult entertainment company CNV.com. The team had to modify Missy to ensure that she too didn't explode as the air pressure decreased with altitude. Her air plug was adapted so that she equalised throughout her flight.

Bizarrely, given the nature of her sponsor, Missy was sent on her mission with clothes on -- a natty green halterneck and miniskirt combo.

Missy is by no means the first sex toy to be sent to the stratosphere in this way. In October 2011, CNV attached a "vibrating bullet" to a weather balloon, which ascended to around 30,480 metres. Then in October this year, a website called EFukt.com sent a large black dildo on a similar mission.