GUSTO Breaks NASA Scientific Balloon Record for Days in Flight - NASA
Editor’s note: The GUSTO mission ended Feb. 26 at 6:24 p.m. EST, setting a new record for a NASA heavy-lift, long-duration balloon flight at float for 57 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes. The payloa...
- astrophysics explorers program
- goddard space flight center
- gusto (galactic/extragalactic uldb spectroscopic terahertz observatory)
- scientific balloons
- wallops flight facility
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Editor’s note: The GUSTO mission ended Feb. 26 at 6:24 p.m. EST, setting a new record for a NASA heavy-lift, long-duration balloon flight at float for 57 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes. The payload descended by parachute landing safely on the ground in Antarctica. Any recovery effort, while not required for mission success, will be […]