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Aerostar’s high-altitude balloon is shown floating above expansive green fields and a small body of water appears in the lower left corner. The sun, low in the sky and out of frame, is casting sunlight through clouds and haze.

NASA TechRise Student Challenge Takes Flight

Students from 20 middle and high schools watched as their experiments launched aboard a high-altitude balloon on June 14, 2023, as part of NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge. The flight is part of a series of suborbital flight tests for TechRise that will continue through the summer. Led by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program and administered by Future Engineers, TechRise gives student teams a chance to design and build science and technology experiments for flight.

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