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NASA Balloon Program
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center`s Wallops Flight
Facility, located on Virginia`s Eastern Shore, was
established in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, as a center for aeronautic research.
Wallops is now NASA`s principal facility for management
and implementation of suborbital research programs.
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National Scientific Balloon Facility
The National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF),
located in Palestine, Texas,
is a NASA facility.
They provide the services of launching
large (400 ft. dia), unmanned,
high altitude (120,000 ft.), research balloons;
tracking, and recovering the scientific experiments
suspended beneath them, for NASA centers and
universities from all over the world.
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Holloman Air Force Base
The historic Balloon Branch at
Holloman Air Force Base is where
high altitude balloon flights have
taken place since the late 1940's.
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