Arizona is home to multiple hot air balloon festivals every year, and the colorful sky vessels are a popular tourist attraction in the state. While some come just to watch the colorful balloons take ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Soon, hundreds of hot air balloons will fill the Albuquerque sky as part of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, but what goes into making a balloon fly? The answer ...

NASA's first scientific balloon flight of the 2025 Antarctica Balloon Campaign lifted off from the agency's Antarctic ...

On a clear day in early fall, around sunrise, you might notice hot air balloons flying across the sky, but why do they navigate the skies so early in the day and how does weather play a role in their ...

HOW THEY’RE ASSEMBLED AND HOW THESE AIRCRAFT WORK. PILOTING HOT AIR BALLOON IS A TEAM SPORT USUALLY A CREW WHO LOVES THOSE EARLY MORNING AND SOME GOOD FLYING CONDITIONS. MOTHER NATURE MUST WORK IN ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Science Central joined WANE 15 Saturday Morning to show how matter in the air might inhibit blowing up a balloon. Colton Mishler with Science Central brought two balloons ...

Hundreds of Science Central visitors waiting to celebrate the new year Sunday with a noon balloon drop got a brief science lesson from Martin Fisher. Science Central’s executive director knew many of ...

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A wily Japanese tactic in World War II was to launch balloons carrying small explosive or incendiary bombs in the hope that they would drift across the Pacific and land in the U.S. Some of them ...

In Albuquerque, you don’t have to go far to find the answer, as the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum and the City of Albuquerque have compiled online resources dedicated to explaining how ...