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Big payloads need big parachutes. A recovery team retrieves a balloon-launched instrument package (not shown) and prepares to fold its ride.

Science Floats

What a satellite can do, balloons can do cheaper.
January 2002 | By T. A. Heppenheimer

One Balloon Bomber (Slightly Used)

First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.
May 2001 | By Don Piccard

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