Easy to follow films ... bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to balloons and CDs. • Famous families having fun with these experiments at home. • The bottle rocket challenge: faces from across ...

AstroX, headquartered at MIC, is developing a method for launching rockets from balloons lofted to around 20 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. The company, which dubbed its system “rockoon ...

“It's very easy to add weight to things and ... under a steerable parachute. Mira said the balloon technology is inherently safer than rockets loaded with explosive fuels. It also produces ...

Its gimmick: it will start at 100,000 ft. from a balloon. Battling Air. When rockets are fired from the earth’s surface, they cannot start fast. If they move too fast too soon, the dense ...

The difference in launch vehicles — Blue’s New Shepard rocket and Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane, versus Space Perspective’s balloon and pressurized capsule — render everything else wholly ...