Jan 28 2005
From The Space Library
NASA announced that one of its scientific balloons had broken the balloon flight record for duration and distance, soaring for nearly 42 days and making three orbits around the South Pole, thereby exceeding the previous record of nearly 32 days and two orbits. The flight of the balloon, which carried the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) experiment, demonstrated the capabilities of NASA's Ultra-Long Duration Balloon (ULDB) support system. NASA had designed the CREAM experiment to study the supernova acceleration limit of cosmic rays~the relativistic gas of protons, electrons, and heavy nuclei arriving at Earth from outside the solar system. The ULDB system, which NASA was developing, would extend flights up to 100 days. (NASA, “NASA Research Balloon Makes Record-Breaking Flight,” news release 05-031, 28 January 2005, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/jan/HQ_05031_balloon_record.html (accessed 13 August 2009).)
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