Students and ballooning flight director Michael Walach, associate professor in the MSU’s College of Agriculture, will make a ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has kicked off its annual fall balloon campaign at the agency's balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Eight balloon flights carrying scientific ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency's super pressure balloon technology. These stadium-sized, heavy-lift ...

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Antarctica, launching two exciting balloon missions that aim to uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. The missions kicked off in early December ...

(KWTX) - When you think of NASA research you likely think of rockets & satellites, but for over 30 years NASA has been performing high-altitude scientific research with balloons. In this week’s ...

An online rumor circulated last week that suggested that one of NASA's high-flying research balloons, used to hunt for exoplanets, had crashed in Texas. But the leader of the mission has since ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On Sunday, people from eastern to western New Mexico, and even Arizona, were staring up into the sky, wondering about a mysterious floating dot. Well, it was a scientific balloon ...

For over five decades the elements of NASA’s suborbital program—airborne, balloon, and sounding rockets—have provided vital technical support for NASA’s scientific mission success. These elements have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – NASA will launch eight scientific balloons at the agency’s balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.