Excelsior was a series of three high-altitude bailouts that were ... Joseph Kittinger went up in an open gondola hanging from a polyethylene balloon. At a height of 102,800 feet -- a new altitude ...

But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air balloons as well as gas ... but it is thought they were incapacitated by high g-force as the gondola fell, rotating its way down from ...

If you’re trying to do that, you might find some value in the Tiny4FSK project from the New England Weather Balloon Society. Tiny4FSK is intended to be a very small solution for high-altitude ...

Instructions on the gondola urge finders to send ... took three days and two hours. The balloon’s maximum speed when pushed by the high-altitude jet stream was 200 m.p.h. The third balloon ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency's super pressure balloon technology. These stadium-sized, heavy-lift ...

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 ...

His uncle, the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, developed both the pressurized balloon gondola ... balloon to an altitude of 53,000 feet, launching an era of record-setting high-altitude ...