Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute and can land hundreds of kilometers from the launch site in inaccessible areas. [Yohan Hadji ...

Kittinger's 1960 jump. Credit: U.S. Air Force Project Excelsior was one of the Air Force's last high-altitude balloon experiments. Excelsior was a series of three high-altitude bailouts that were ...

With high-altitude ballooning ... To solve this [Yohan Hadji] created R2Home, an autonomous parachute-based recovery system that can fly a payload to any specified landing site within its gliding ...

Browse a gallery of the U.S. Air Force's high-altitude balloon experiments and the researchers, scientists, and test pilots who made them possible.

Every flier waits to hear those magic words after takeoff: “We have reached cruising altitude; you’re now ... transport category aircraft can fly at high altitudes, but their performance ...

TASS/. Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation patented a suborbital spacecraft for flights of space tourists and high-altitude parachute jumps, the Federal Industrial Property Institute ...