The reduction of launches at six stations is the latest in a growing string of balloon cancellations as the agency adapts to ...

The balloon’s string, still attached to a radio transmitter ... Once it has traveled up about 21 miles and its volume has grown 100-fold, it explodes, shooting latex in all directions and ...

It was actually from nearby Jackson, where it had been launched earlier in the day. This was the carriage of a homemade weather balloon that had risen 21 miles into the stratosphere and drifted 25 ...