On the morning of December 13, 1962, a Navy astronomer and an Air Force captain stepped out of the New Mexico Sun and into a small steel capsule attached to a nearly 300-foot-tall mylar balloon.

The purpose of the project is to be used as a computing module in embedded devices, development projects, or educational settings as it creates an open hardware development board known as Balloon. The ...

The idea of space technology often conjures images of men with 1960s-esque haircuts counting down to the takeoff of a large, several-billion-dollar rocket — not balloons. But balloons are one of the ...

UC Berkeley students are challenging the notion that balloons are just for parties — on March 4, Space Technologies at Cal, or STAC, successfully launched a high-altitude balloon, or HAB, 101,000 feet ...