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Above the duck, a balloon, constructed of paper and fabric, provided the lift necessary to carry aloft the duck and its companions, a sheep and a rooster. Never before had a human, let alone a ...

Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, carrying the first human beings into the air in the closing months of 1783.The excitement quickly ...

“We were able to feel human activity and the strength of life in there.” First-year students in the astronomy club are planning a second balloon with a more unique mission. “With our own ...

Space Perspective executives celebrated a September uncrewed balloon test flight that sent a prototype capsule aloft from the deck of the company's ocean vessel — but human missions remain postponed.

Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, carrying the first human beings into the air in the closing months of 1783.The excitement quickly ...