All you need is a big weather balloon, some helium, a camera, and a dose of good timing. High-altitude "ballooning" allows hobbyists, photographers, and students alike to view our planet from as ...

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and deposit it in some inaccessible spot. To solve this [Yohan Hadji] created ...

The primary goal of this project is the development of an efficient numerical method for modeling high altitude rocket exhaust plume flows, in which a solid particulate phase is suspended within the ...