The first possible launch date is today Monday 22 May, in the afternoon. BEXUS (Balloon EXperiment for University Students) is a yearly recurring experimental stratospheric balloon flight involving ...

UC Berkeley students are challenging the notion that balloons are just for parties — on March 4, Space Technologies at Cal, or STAC, successfully launched a high-altitude balloon, or HAB, 101,000 feet ...

The Science Siblings popped by with an experiment fit for Liftiversary week involving balloons, candles, and oranges. Paige and Adam Jacobson suggest safety glasses too. “We will be working with ...

Elementary through high school student researchers from across the United States are scheduled to launch their experiments on a high-altitude NASA scientific balloon from Fort Sumner, N.M., no earlier ...

AMES, Iowa – Early spring snow clung to the tree branches surrounding the Howe Hall parking lot as a dozen Iowa State University students began filling a high-altitude balloon with hydrogen just after ...

From live leeches to building model rockets, a lot happens in Joe Graber’s Michigan high school science class. The most recent project is a weather balloon experiment that could lead to a scavenger ...