Excelsior was a series of three high-altitude bailouts that were ... Joseph Kittinger went up in an open gondola hanging from a polyethylene balloon. At a height of 102,800 feet -- a new altitude ...

But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air balloons as well as gas ... but it is thought they were incapacitated by high g-force as the gondola fell, rotating its way down from ...

County 10 received quite a few photos, videos and messages over the weekend concerning “a strange object in the sky,” which ...

U.S. Army Tests Micro High-Altitude Balloon Network is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week ...

After some research, CBS News Colorado discovered it was one of the Stratollite high-altitude balloon systems from World View Enterprises. According to the company's website, its mission is to ...

The large, white balloon was spotted flying at high altitude near Longmont Friday morning. The balloon is part of the Stratollite high-altitude balloon systems, according to World View Enterprises.

The device, which Piccard called “The Gondola”, took off from Augsburg ... enough promising data to encourage further high-altitude balloon flights, and the world was in awe of the record ...

WE HAVE CONFIRMED IT’S A HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON FROM WORLDVIEW. THIS BALLOON IS FLYING TO COLLECT SOLAR RADIATION DATA FOR NASA. THE COMPANY TELLS US THESE BALLOONS C Many in New Mexico spotted a ...

His uncle, the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, developed both the pressurized balloon gondola ... balloon to an altitude of 53,000 feet, launching an era of record-setting high-altitude ...

You may even see some leaves turning fresh hues of orange and yellow as you float above the world in your very own gondola ..

A cutdown in high-altitude balloon (HAB) parlance refers to detaching a payload, and can refer to the act of severing a line or to the mechanism itself. How is this done? The most common way is ...