Ride A Weather Balloon Into (near) Space

NY Times: Science
Sun, 10/22/2017 - 2:00am

Take a trip into the stratosphere on one of NOAA’s weather balloons. It rises 21 miles into the sky collecting data before bursting and falling back to Earth.

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