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A BARREL balloon inflates on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016. Throughout August 2016, the...
The BARREL team inflates the balloon to launch their fifth scientific payload from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
The first BARREL balloon is inflated just before its launch on Aug. 13, 2016, from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
The third BARREL balloon floats towards the stratosphere on Aug. 21, 2016. This payload flew for nearly 30 hours,...
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team is at Esrange...
A BARREL team member watches as one of their payloads launches from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016....
The BARREL team prepares to launch their third payload from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, on Aug. 21,...
The faint green glow of aurora can be seen above the clouds at Esrange Space Center in this photo from Aug. 23,...
Four reindeer walk past the BARREL payload on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL...
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team is at Esrange...
A member of the BARREL team prepares a payload for launch from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016. Throughout...
Prior to launch, the BARREL team works on the payload from the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
The BARREL team prepares to release the second scientific balloon in its Sweden campaign on Aug. 13, 2015. In...
A BARREL team member recovers the second payload after it landed. The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center near...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Cape Canaveral forecast facility in Florida, a worker carries a Rawinsonde...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Cape Canaveral weather station in Florida, workers carry an upper-level weather...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Rawinsonde weather balloon sails into the sky after release from the Cape Canaveral...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Cape Canaveral forecast facility in Florida, a worker releases a Rawinsonde...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An upper-level weather balloon sails into the sky after release from the Cape Canaveral...
Astronaut Shannon Walker prepares to release a weather balloon from the deck of the USS Portland alongside members...
Astronaut Shannon Walker prepares to release a weather balloon from the deck of the USS Portland alongside members...
iss065e087510 (June 5, 2021) --- Expedition 65 Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency...
AUGUST 31, 2012 TRIBUTE TO APOLLO ASTRONAUT NEIL ARMSTRONG AT THE USSRC. A LARGE GROUP GATHERED NEAR THE LIFE-SIZE...
NASA's Administrator, Charles Bolden watches as some students conduct an experiment with a balloon at NASA's Earth...