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2. 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron - Wikipedia

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   The cauldron consisted of a 7-metre (23-foot) diameter ring suspended from a 30-meter-tall (98 feet) helium-filled balloon. Its design was designed to pay homage to the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries–and, in particular, France's historical contributions to balloon flight; [ 5 ] [ 6 ] in 1783 ...

3. All Ohio Balloon Festival - Wikipedia

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   The festival is the longest-running balloon festival in the United States. [5] The event has been held at the Union County Airport since 1975. It will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2025. [6] [7] The festival has since grown to attract 30,000 people per year. [8] The festival is a non-profit event that benefits different charities every year ...

4. Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility - Wikipedia

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   The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF), established in 1961 and formerly known as the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF), is a NASA facility responsible for providing launch, tracking and control, airspace coordination, telemetry and command systems, and recovery services for unmanned high-altitude balloons. Customers of the ...

5. Helium production in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Map showing helium-rich gas fields and helium processing plants in the United States, 2012. From USGS. Helium production in the United States totaled 73 million cubic meters in 2014. The US was the world's largest helium producer, providing 40 percent of world supply. In addition, the US federal government sold 30 million cubic meters from storage.

6. High-altitude balloon - Wikipedia

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   High-altitude balloons or stratostats are usually uncrewed balloons typically filled with helium or hydrogen and released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between 18 and 37 km (11 and 23 mi; 59,000 and 121,000 ft) above sea level. In 2013, a balloon named BS 13-08 reached a record altitude of 53.7 km (33.4 mi; 176,000 ft). [1]

7. Balloon - Wikipedia

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   Balloon rockets work because the elastic balloons contract on the air within them, and so when the mouth of the balloon is opened, the gas within the balloon is expelled out, and due to Newton's third law of motion, the balloon is propelled forward. This is the same way that a rocket works.