Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying sensors, laptops, and carefully engineered payloads they have spent months preparing. The goal is to send their experiments to the edge of space and return with meaningful data, while reflecting NASA’s long-standing commitment to develop fu
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