Walker was born in 1957, “during the golden age of space exploration ... to parachute to the ground for recovery at any time during the flight. Science balloons carry telescopes like the ...

Later stage of the explosion. John Powell has a dream: getting humans into space via balloon. For now, he’s perfecting his launch techniques by wafting payloads into the stratosphere.

The NASA astronauts who months ago flew to space aboard Boeing's failed Starliner ... Teams aboard SpaceX recovery vessels raced to retrieve the floating spacecraft and its crew of four.

NASA's Orion crew module test article is framed by the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis 2 ...

We’ve reported on “space” balloons before. Heck, some of us have even launched a few. Usually they go way up in the air, take some cool pictures, and land within driving (and retrieving ...

Beginning in the early 1930s the United States Air Force began making forays into the atmosphere using balloons, and what followed laid the foundation for NASA and all American space exploration ...

It marked the end of a space saga that began after the Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (S73-7 ... called Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR, which analyzes multiple photos of ...

The Space Minor has designed a special program that allows any student in the Space Minor an opportunity to build a balloon payload and launch it to the edge of space! Students are challenged to ...

Although the exact launch date has not been set, the company has successfully conducted uncrewed test flights, demonstrating the balloon’s capability to reach high altitudes. The space balloon ...