NASA super pressure balloons return to New Zealand for test flights
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...
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CT has a helium balloon problem, lawmakers and advocates say. What’s being done to solve it.
Senate Bill 1154, introduced in the Environment Committee on Jan. 24, would ban any lighter-than-air-gas or helium balloons entirely and impose fines for violators.
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As helium prices balloon, hopes rise that northeast Minnesota has big deposit of the gas
A Pulsar Helium drill site as seen Jan. 13 near Babbitt, Minn. Canada-based Pulsar Helium has discovered extremely high concentrations of helium in tests of underground deposits. Helium is best ...
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Rate of Inflation: Cleveland's Great Balloon Incident of 1986
Accompanied by mimes, clowns, and the comic strip character Ziggy, roughly 1.5 million balloons, each engorged with helium, were released into the air. The multicolored blob rose higher and higher ...
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Bladen County discourages community from releasing helium balloons
BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Bladen County has adopted a resolution discouraging the release of helium balloons. “The Board of Commissioners encourages residents, businesses, and visitors of Bladen ...