He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations and helped to develop procedures and equipment that underlie modern scientific ballooning.
The most common type of high altitude balloons are weather balloons.
A practical orbital airship design must deal with multiple engineering challenges of both high altitude balloons and spacecraft.
Kittinger, a UF alumnus, told his story of when he took the 102,800 foot jump from a high altitude balloon.
This limit is a frequent obstacle encountered, if not discussed, among hobbyists seeking to make high altitude balloons.
How can I assemble an high altitude balloon and send it to space?
Nova is CU Spaceflight's first project and has the objective of launching high altitude balloons on test flights to near space.
It is a base for scientific research with high altitude balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things.
The telescope is solar telescope in the ultraviolet, that hangs from a high altitude balloon.
The film follows a team of astrophysicists who launch a telescope, upon a high altitude balloon from northern Sweden and again from Antarctica.