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00 Virtual Museum
- Dr. & Mrs. A. Dale Topping L-T-A Museum Virtual Museum of the Lighter-Tan-Air Society’s Collection
01 Other Museums and Exhibits
- MAPS Air Museum – North Canton, Ohio MAPS Air Museum – Including the Control Car from the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Akron
- Summit Memory View The Lighter Than Air Society’s collection on Summit Memory
03 Associations
- Naval Airship Assn. Home of the Naval Airship Association
- Northeast Ohio Balloon Pilots Association
Tag Archives: NASA
The Reusable Balloon-Based Telescope
Source: Engineering.com By: Kyle Maxey Astronomers may have a new method for observing the Universe’s vast history thanks to a telescope design that blends the best of ground and space-based telescopes.
Posted in Balloons, Uncategorized
Tagged helium balloon, high altitude helium balloons, NASA, Stratospheric balloon, telescope
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NMSU helps NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program achieve rare feat
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 … Continue reading
First Images of a Comet from a Stratospheric Balloon
Source: The Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University – jhuapl.edu The images are the first ever taken of a comet from a stratospheric scientific balloon mission, and show that Siding Spring was undergoing an outburst event, during which … Continue reading
New Earth-Observing Instrument Makes Successful Balloon Flight
Source: NASA – nasa.gov In New Mexico on the morning of Aug. 18, a high-altitude balloon successfully carried the HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) instrument to an altitude of 123,000 feet, above most of the Earth’s atmosphere, to reach … Continue reading
Posted in Balloons, Stratospheric Balloons
Tagged high altitude helium balloons, HySICS, NASA, Stratospheric balloon
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Airships That Carry Science into the Stratosphere
Source: nytimes.com – The New York Times By Joshua A. Krisch Modern Research Borne on a Relic Airships are dusty relics of aviation history. Lighter-than-air vehicles conjure images of the Hindenburg, in its glory and destruction, and the Goodyear Blimp, … Continue reading