French fighter jets shot down high-altitude balloons with air-to-air missiles in a recent test. France warned that the battle for near-space is heating up and pointed to China's spy balloon over the ...

A bit of fog on the first day of fall didn’t dim the excitement at all as students at Aspen Crossing Elementary prepared to launch two large weather balloons into near space on Sept. 22. Students and ...

Third-grade students at Velma Linford Elementary joined forces with the University of Wyoming’s NASA Space Grant Consortium on Tuesday morning to launch a high-altitude weather balloon, combining ...

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