A Chinese spy balloon that crossed over the United States in 2023 was packed with American technology that could have enabled ...

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Never before had a human, let alone a duck, flown in a balloon. The year was 1783, a milestone year for aviation—the dream of flying had finally been realized. On October 15th of that year ...

Carlincourt Lowe, aeronautics chief of the Union Army, who had held them as a personal trophy after the close of the war. In 1859 Professor Lowe,* meteorologist and inventor, built the balloon ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

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