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jsc2024e050834 (7/26/2024) --- Screaming Balloon hex nuts, pennies and balloons in their individual ziplock stowage...
jsc2024e050835 (7/26/2024) --- Members of the STEMonstrations team at the flight configuration hardware check for...
Surging to take advantage of near-perfect launch conditions, NASA’s Scientific Balloon Team launched two balloons...
NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon,...
NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon,...
BARREL researchers get ready to release the top part of the balloon, called the bubble, as it fills with enough...
A view looking over the payload – the instruments that fly under a balloon – while the BARREL balloon inflates. The...
Getting ready to lay out a BARREL balloon to prepare for inflation. The helium stillages used to fill the balloon...
Release of a BARREL balloon. The launch crew can be seen on the right holding the payload as the top of the balloon...
The BARREL team at Halley Research Station in Antarctica, work to inflate a balloon. The long tube on the left is...
While large compared to a human, BARREL balloons are actually much smaller than typical science balloons, which can...
The Scientific balloon eclipses the sun as it fills with helium, and the High Altitude Student Platform awaits...
Caption: A NASA Super Pressure Balloon with the COSI payload is ready for launch from McMurdo, Antarctica. Credit:...
Cosmic rays and the chemicals and atoms that make up the interstellar space between stars are the focus of this...
Getting fuller! A BARREL balloon is filled with helium during the 2013-2014 mission campaign in Antarctica. Credit:...
A team member from South African research station, SANAE IV, helps unwrap the balloon from its protective yellow...
The BARREL team at the South African research station, SANAE IV, poses next to the instrument box, which will float...
BARREL team members lift up the instrument box below an inflated BARREL balloon to help with launch. Credit:...
Recovery of a BARREL balloon payload after its flight. The recovery was carried out by helicopter. This area is...
The BARREL team at the South African research station, SANAE IV, lay out the 130-foot-long balloon on the ground to...
The BARREL instrument in Antarctica– prior to being encased in its protective box – destined to float beneath a...
A BARREL balloon launches up into the sky, destined to float on the circumpolar winds around the South Pole for up...
Members of the BARREL team in Antarctica jump up and down in what they call the Low Wind Dance as they hope for the...
A worker releases a weather balloon at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station weather station. The balloon is equipped...