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Browse a gallery of the U.S. Air Force's high-altitude balloon experiments and the researchers, scientists, and test pilots who made them possible.

Aerial platforms are lighter-than-air aircraft that stay aloft using atmospheric buoyancy. They come in three main types: tethered balloons, high-altitude balloons, and airships, the report explained.