In 1783, hot air balloons became the first viable option for people to explore the world from the sky. In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open ...

South Milwaukee Middle School students are working on a project that will be launched by NASA through its TechRise Student ...

We think of human flight as a relatively modern affair, with a few claims to the first airplane all around the turn of the last century. But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air ...

Girl Scouts of Hawaii says it wants to encourage girls to become interested in STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, ...

Wildland firefighters could have a new tool in their arsenal as they battle increasingly extreme wildfires: high-altitude balloons. Aerostar, a South Dakota-based company, has flown nearly a dozen ...

These modules will guide you through the skill-building activities of a balloon payload workshop. If you have any questions or run into problems as you build, email [email protected] In order to ...

Early spring snow clung to the tree branches surrounding the Howe Hall parking lot as a dozen Iowa State University students began filling a high-altitude balloon with hydrogen just after dawn on ...

Swiss firm Meteomatics unveils the Meteoglider a new way to collect high-altitude weather data with an ultra-light GPS-guided ...

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...

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