Scientific Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record
U.S. Newswire, January, 2008
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: Keith Koehler, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, of NASA, 1-757-824-1579, keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov; or Peter West of the National Science Foundation, 1-703-292-8070, pwest@nsf.gov
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have achieved a new milestone in conducting scientific observations from balloons, by launching and operating three long-duration flights within a single Antarctic summer.
Having three long-duration balloon science missions flying simultaneously is a record-setting event. But of greater significance is the increase in science that can be accomplished with only a modest increase in cost to the program, said David Gregory, assistant chief of NASAs Balloon...
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