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 ...

Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute and can land hundreds of kilometers from the launch site in inaccessible areas. [Yohan Hadji ...

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 ...

These signals will help NASA as it develops the ability to measure seismic activity on Venus from high-altitude balloons ... to measure the shock of the gondola during the launch, termination ...

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 ...

While the primary flight objective is to test and qualify the super pressure balloon technology, the flights will also host science missions and technology demonstrations. The High-altitude ...