NASA's Ultra Long Duration Balloon to try again to circumnavigate globe
NASA's Ultra Long Duration Balloon (ULDB) will take another crack at circumnavigating the Earth this December, now that engineers believe they've solved a number of problems that plagued two previous attempts last year. Designed to float above 99 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, the single-cell...
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