Eighth time lucky: NASA launches super balloon to collect near space data

Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 23:01 in Astronomy & Space

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A stadium-sized pressure balloon launched by NASA in New Zealand began collecting data in near space on Wednesday, beginning a 100-day planned journey after several launch attempts were thwarted by storms and cyclones.

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