Source: CNN Travel – cnn.com/travel
The World’s First Aerial Stowaway
In 1928, 19-year-old Clarence Terhune became a sensation in Germany, after stowing away on the return leg of the maiden flight of the Graf Zeppelin, flying from Lakehurst, New Jersey to Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Source: Albuquerque Journal – abqjournal.com
By Tania Soussan
The differences between gas and hot-air balloons go much deeper than looks.
From the physics of getting up and down to the strategy of pulling off a good flight, gas balloons don’t operate in the same ways as the more common hot-air balloons.
Source: Channel NewsAsia – channelnewsasia.com
Lim Seng, founder of local company IN.Genius, has unveiled a space capsule which he hopes will send the first Singaporean into space next year – as a birthday gift for the nation’s 50th birthday.
Source: Bedfordshire on Sunday – bedfordshire-news.co.uk
By Judy Riley
In the late autumn of 1929, little Donald Clarke posed for a photo with his brother, Reginald, in front of the R101. Little did he know then that, some 80 years later, in 2010, his family snap would have been blown up, mounted and hung on the wall in an exhibition at Bedford Museum.
Source: Las Cruces Sun-News – lcsun-news.com
By Tiffany Acosta
For the first time in the 27-year launch history in Fort Sumner, N.M., New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility team launched three balloon experiments on three consecutive days for NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program. The launches took flight Sept. 24-26.