ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta set a new Guinness World Record for the "Greatest mass hot air balloon ascent." “Following our launch of 1,019 hot air balloons in 2000 ...

NASA’s Balloon Program Office successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) at 3:54 p.m. EDT, Saturday, July 2, setting a new flight duration record for a ...

New Mexico is now home to the only hot air balloon manufacturer in the entire Southwest.Adam's Balloons set up shop in Albuquerque two years ago, and last month got FAA approval to build and repair ...

Keen to develop powerful yet cost-effective technology for exploring the dark depths of the universe, NASA has been working on the creation of a Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) capable of carrying and ...

The high-altitude internet balloons operated by Google parent Alphabet are improving all the time, with one of them recently floating in the stratosphere for a record 312 days, covering a distance of ...

It's tough to be a balloon over Antarctica. Most don't last more than a few weeks, but the Super-TIGER cosmic ray detector has been floating over the South Pole for 46 days and counting. The ...

WEBVTT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER KIRSTEN SWANSON GOT A LOOK AT SOME OF THE FIRST MADE IN NEW MEXICO BALLOONS COMING OUT SOON. KIRSTEN: IT'S A PROCESS. IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD A BALLOON ...

Two British balloonists are set for an attempt on the world altitude record on Tuesday by ascending to the edge of space aboard a 381-metre-tall balloon. Pilots Andy Elson and Colin Prescot will sit ...

NASA's humongous scientific balloon didn't quite hit the agency's ultimate goal, but it still set a flight duration record after flying for 46 days, 20 hours and 19 minutes. The agency launched the 18 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An illegal fire balloon fell in the Juguery Park near Sao Paulo, setting off a fire that burned across more than half of the state park by Sunday afternoon and rained ash on the ...