"Since the race’s inception, nine pilots had perished from mountainside crashes, unexpected plummets, or rogue lightning storms."
An excerpt from the new Atavist Magazine story, "The Balloon That Fell From the Sky," by Nick Davidson: https://longreads.com/2025/04/03/balloon-race-belarus-disaster/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
NASA Artemis Underway Recovery Test 12
#AndreDouglas #Artemis #ArtemisII #Astronaut #Balloon #BertKallio #Boat #California
104 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=104&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250329011942
My son recently launched a #WeatherBalloon with a #camera and some instruments. This #photo is from about 30km up just before the #balloon burst. It's really cool that you can begin to see the curvature of the #Earth from this height and see the darkness of #space. I was on an airliner in this area on the same day and saw some of the same clouds and frozen rivers & lakes my son captured in his photos.
Three Cheers For Books! 1963
#Adventure, #Balloon, #Books, #Children, #HotAirBalloon, #Knowledge, #Learning, #Reading
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Sound on for the video.
#Canberra #CBR #BalloonFestival #balloon
This is why I don’t have to get up early for the balloon festival. It comes to me!
#Canberra #CBR #BalloonFestival #balloon
Saddle up, yall! We had a blast wranglin' up this 1st Rodeo' party for lil' cowboy Christian! Ain't no better way to celebrate a first birthday! #RodeoTheme #decor #cowboy #balloon #shoplocal #smallbusiness
These bunny shaped balloons are amazing to hug! (especially these large ones)
Fursuit: Sarah Cat Fursuits (https://www.sarahcatfursuits.com/ )
Magic takes flight: Canberra Balloon Spectacular 2025
From 15-23 March, Lake Burley Griffin and the surrounding natural scenery is filled with colour as hot air balloons of all shapes and sizes take to the sky. Spectators young and old gathered around John Dunmore Lang Place in Parkes at the crack of dawn on Saturday for the magical experience
One of these years I'm so going to visit Canberra to see this