Tickets for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta go live on Friday April 4th. Guests can purchase general admission, park and ride, gondola, and chaser's club packages. You can buy your ...

[Kensho Miyoshi] — an avid reader of Hack a Day — needed an art installation project in Tokyo, he came up with these clever glowing balloon blimps. They feature a mini gondola hanging from the ...

Auguste Piccard and an assistant took a gas-filled balloon to 15,781 meters in 1931. Their gondola was pressurized, and they were the first humans to see the curvature of the Earth and the dark ...

(RUBEN SPRICH/AFP via Getty Images) Pilots Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland, left, and Wim Verstraeten of Belgium wave as they prepare to test the gondola of the Breitling Orbiter 2 balloon in an ...

When all the ballast is gone, the balloon eventually sinks, and another automatic device cuts the instrument gondola free and lowers it to earth on a parachute. Instructions on the gondola urge ...