Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These helium balloons can loft ...

As West Mesa High School Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students prepared to launch a high-altitude balloon in the central courtyard on Monday, their peers ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Stratospheric balloons are powerful tools used to study the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as the greater cosmos beyond. This book ...

What do balloons have to do with rockets? Find out in this episode of ISS Science with Astronaut Randy Bresnik. Click here for lesson plans: airandspace.si.edu/iss ...