I found a neat way to easily get the hard badge. Just get all upgrades, throw straight up, and use boost for 2 bars. Then it will say you are stalling, and while you press space bar, it will still go up at max speed untill over 1000 altitute! Then you carefully use the last 2 bars of your boost to level out and glide down, collecting space stars.
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