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Sports Illustrated
August 17, 2001
E.M. Swift |
Ho-hum This just in: Adventurer Steve Fossett has abandoned his latest attempt to become the first solo balloonist to circumnavigate the globe. Is Fossett's fifth failure really news?   |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Balloon Rescue 101: Airborne Lessons From A "Missing" Boy The recent case of the missing balloon boy highlights many difficulties of successfully rescuing balloonists. |
Popular Mechanics
January 29, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
Preparing for a Record-Breaking 23-Mile-Dive: Gallery Later this year, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt the highest, longest, boldest freefall in history. |
Wired
August 2001
Craig Offman |
Terminal Velocity One pressure suit. One parachute. 130,000 feet. Two skydivers are racing to push the envelope of the stratosphere -- and survive smashing the sound barrier on their way back down to Earth... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2005 |
NASA picks Octagon Systems for balloon computer The PC-680 SBC is able to manage data flow for NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) program. |
Wired
August 18, 2008
James Lee |
Blimpin' Ain't Easy: Crossing the English Channel in a Pedal-Powered Airship* A 39-year-old Frenchman is hoping to cross the English Channel in a homemade, pedal-powered airship. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
James Turner |
Balloon-Borne Photography Get a bird's-eye view on a budget |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005 |
NASA Project Uses Data Recorder From BiTMICRO Penn State designers used the E-Disk flash drive on their Cosmic Rays Energetics And Mass (CREAM) project, a high-altitude balloon experiment that investigated the composition of ultra high-energy cosmic rays with NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) vehicle technology. |
Outside
January 2002
Jeffrey Davis |
Above the Spray With his radical flying sailboat L'Hydropt�re, a French skipper aims to snatch Steve Fossett's brand-new Atlantic speed record... |
High on Adventure
February 2007
Lee Juillerat |
Up, Up and Away Floating in the skies above outside the southern Oregon city of Klamath Falls. |
Entrepreneur
November 2008
Mike Werling |
Branson: A Man of Many Milestones Richard Branson isn't defined by business or personal success. His life is a combination of both. |
Popular Mechanics
January 29, 2010
Joe Hasler |
5 Tales of Survival from Extreme Falls A trauma specialist says that while a fall from 20,000 feet sounds incredible, the extreme height makes little difference in these stories of survival. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Sat Shot Over as Scientists Turn to Balloons for Space Particles Scientists eager to avoid wait lists to launch satellite instrumentation use balloons to detect condition of cosmic atmosphere. |
Wired
September 2000 |
Verge NASA's new helium-filled balloons are going higher and doing more than ever to understand and predict stratospheric ozone loss... |
