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00 Virtual Museum
- Dr. & Mrs. A. Dale Topping L-T-A Museum Virtual Museum of the Lighter-Tan-Air Society’s Collection
01 Other Museums and Exhibits
- MAPS Air Museum – North Canton, Ohio MAPS Air Museum – Including the Control Car from the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Akron
- Summit Memory View The Lighter Than Air Society’s collection on Summit Memory
03 Associations
- Naval Airship Assn. Home of the Naval Airship Association
- Northeast Ohio Balloon Pilots Association
Tag Archives: high altitude helium balloons
To Space (Okay, Near-Space) in a Balloon
Source: Air & Space Magazine – airspacemag.com By Mark Karpel A little company dreams of replacing rocket power with buoyancy.
Japanese website designer takes stunning high altitude balloon photography
Source: japandailypress.com By: John Hofilena Keisuke Iwaya, a 27-year-old engineering graduate from Sapporo, has taken his fascination of outer space to a different level – a higher level – by doing photography way up in the stratosphere.
Chippewa High Physics Students Launch Balloon with Camera into Stratosphere
Source: The Chippewa Herald – chippewa.com By Elizabeth Dohms A few years ago, Chi-Hi physics teacher Nick Gagnon watched a video of an amateur ham radio operator launching and tracking a high-altitude balloon. He thought a project of NASA proportions … Continue reading
WASP Gives NASA’s Planetary Scientists New Observation Platform
Source: NASA.gov Scientists who study Earth, the sun and stars have long used high-altitude scientific balloons to carry their telescopes far into the stratosphere for a better view of their targets. Not so much for planetary scientists.
India’s First Indigenously Developed Stratospheric Balloon Penetrates into Mesosphere
Source: indiatimes.com Under the High Altitude Balloon Development Project (HAA) a 61,000 m3 (2,154,000 cu ft) balloon indigenously developed in India at Balloon Facility, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad penetrated into the Mesosphere for the first time in India. … Continue reading