NASA Balloon Mission To Investigate Forces That Halt Star Formation

Artist's concept of a high-altitude balloon ascending into the upper atmosphere.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Michael Lentz
NASA has completed construction of a record-tying large primary mirror for a telescope to be carried aloft by a high-altitude balloon. Planned for launch from NASA’s Long Duration Balloon Facility near the McMurdo Station in Antarctica no earlier than December 2023, the Astrophysics Stratospheric...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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