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A NASA scientific balloon readies for launch from Fort Sumner, New Mexico. NASA's Fort Sumner Scientific Balloon campaign kicks-off Aug....
A scientific balloon partially inflated in the sky right before it's released by the crane holding it on the ground.
A scientific balloon is partially inflated before flight.
A scientific balloon is partially inflated in the shape of a teardrop in front of a bright orange sunset.
A NASA Super Pressure Balloon just before launch from Wanaka, New Zealand, March 26, 2015, on a journey that will...
A crane is leading a scientific balloon before launch. The balloon is to the right, and appears an a plastic, upside down teardrop. A tube attached to the top of the balloon leads down to the ground where a number of personnel are holding it. To the left, a crane holding a large payload structure with many solar panels is attached to the end of the balloon.
The Boron And Carbon Cosmic rays in the Upper Stratosphere (BACCUS) payload prepares for launch via a 40-million-cubic-foot NASA Scientific...
A scientific balloon being prepared for flight in Antartica.
A NASA super pressure balloon takes to the skies on a potentially record-breaking, around-the-world flight, from Wanaka, New Zealand.
Super Pressure Balloon launches
A super pressure balloon is being readied for launch.
A super pressure balloon being readied for launch
Following a Sept. 27 weather briefing, the NASA scientific balloon launch team and the Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON)...
BRRISON readies for Sept. 28 launch
In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories...
Launching Balloons to Study Space Weather
NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon, carrying Indiana University's...
A teardrop-shaped scientific balloon being prepared for launch on a snowy landscape.
Technicians attach the Sunrise payload to its balloon and parachute. The giant crane holds the gondola plus telescope payload steady...
A crane is leading a scientific balloon before launch. The balloon is to the right, and appears an a plastic, upside down teardrop. A tube attached to the top of the balloon leads down to the ground where a number of personnel are holding it. To the left, a crane holding a large payload structure with many solar panels is attached to the end of the balloon.
NASA is returning to Wanaka, New Zealand, for another Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) launch campaign in 2017. Pictured here, the...
A crane is leading a scientific balloon before launch. The balloon is to the right, and appears an a plastic, upside down teardrop. A tube attached to the top of the balloon leads down to the ground where a number of personnel are holding it. To the left, a crane holding a large payload structure with many solar panels is attached to the end of the balloon.
NASA's Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) fully inflated and flying at 110,000 feet as seen from the balloon gondola looking up.
An image of a fully inflated scientific balloon floating in the atmosphere. The image is looking up from below the balloon. The balloon is a clear, plastic perfect circle.
A NASA super pressure balloon takes to the skies on a potentially record-breaking, around-the-world flight, from Wanaka, New Zealand.
A landscape photo of New Zealand, with a partially inflated balloon in the shape of an upside down teardrop in the distance.
Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a telescope to observe wavelengths of light...
This illustration shows a high-altitude balloon ascending into the upper atmosphere