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The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a yearly hot air balloon festival that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during early October. The Balloon Fiesta is a nine-day event occurring in the first full week of October, and has over 500 hot air balloons each year, far from its beginnings of merely 13 balloons in 1972. [ 1]
Coordinates: 35°11′23.25″N 106°35′52.25″W. The museum as seen from Balloon Fiesta Park. The Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum is a museum dedicated to the worldwide history, science, and art of all types of ballooning and lighter-than-air flight. It is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, and is situated ...
U.S. Route 54 ( US 54) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that travels from Griggsville, Illinois, to El Paso, Texas. In the U.S. state of New Mexico, US 54 extends from the Texas state line by Chaparral, New Mexico, and ends at the Texas state line by Nara Visa, New Mexico. The highway runs for 356.176 miles (573.210 km) in New Mexico.
The Rio Grande and nearby mountains provide spectacular backdrops to the fiesta that began with a few pilots launching 13 balloons from an open lot near a shopping center on what was the edge of ...
NASA will have a presence throughout the Balloon Fiesta and will be giving away 80,000 solar eclipse viewing glasses for all guests coming in that morning to enjoy the galactic event.
History as a town. 1706 – Town founded as a trading post between the Tiwa Puebloan peoples and the Hispanos in Nuevo México by Francisco Cuervo y Valdés for New Spain. [1] 1793 – San Felipe de Neri Church built. 1837 – Unrest. [2] 1846 – U.S. army fort built. [3] 1850 – Town becomes part of U.S.
Aug. 15—The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is becoming the ExxonMobil Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. ExxonMobil, the largest energy company in the U.S., told the Journal on ...
Benjamin L. "Ben" Abruzzo (June 9, 1930 – February 11, 1985) was an American balloonist and businessman who helped make Albuquerque, New Mexico, into an international ballooning center. [ 3] He was part of the balloon crews that made the first Atlantic Ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle II and the first Pacific Ocean crossing by ...