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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...
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    flight time of this type of balloon. The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility has flown more than 1,700 scientific balloons over 40 years and currently...
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    in 2000. Fort Sumner is the spring and fall home of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. Named after former New Mexico Territory military governor...
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    balloon spaceport (high-altitude balloon port) in Pima County, Arizona. Aerial photography ARCADE Atmospheric satellite BRRISON Columbia Scientific Balloon...
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    In February 2006, NASA's National Scientific Balloon Facility was renamed the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. A supercomputer built in 2004 at the...
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    STRATOCAT (2009). "Data of the stratospheric balloon launched on 6/5/1989 from Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas, US for Molecules observation...
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    Visitor Center Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility Dreams, Hopes, Realities:...
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  • Centers Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility Crawlerway Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility National Transonic Facility Shuttle Landing Facility Shouse,...
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    Palestine's NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (renamed in honor of the shuttle crew), has flown 1,700 high-altitude balloons for universities...
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    Flight Facility (WFF) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) Spacecraft Magnetic Test Facility Katherine...
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  • Haryana, India Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, a NASA facility responsible for providing support for unmanned, high altitude balloons Commission for...
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    Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility Global horizontal sounding technique Sky anchor Portals: Aviation United States Science "Scientific Balloons"....
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    ARCADE (category Balloon-borne telescopes)
    NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, conducted under the auspices of the Balloon Program Office at Wallops Flight Facility. The...
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    Spider (polarimeter) (category Balloon-borne telescopes)
    first balloon flight of the experiment launched in January 2015 from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, with support from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility...
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  • Amtrak code Long duration ballooning, a program of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law (LDB)...
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    on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988...
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    research balloon, the upper atmosphere of Venus was examined by the Vega program. High-altitude balloon Google Balloon Internet Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility...
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    away, while in 2020 for Hurricane Laura the BCC was at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, the designated backup site since 2017...
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    place from Palestine, Texas and was facilitated by NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. In 2019, SuperBIT had its final science qualification flight...
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  • 390 MHz. Radio portal Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility Flight altitude record Flight endurance record High-altitude balloon High-altitude platform...
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    North end of SH 19 overlap ​ 192.1 309.2 FM 3224 west – NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility ​ 198.2 319.0 Spur 324 north – Tennessee Colony ​ 199.5 321...
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    [heiki], lit. "Code 'Fu' [Weapon]") was an incendiary balloon weapon (風船爆弾, fūsen bakudan, lit. "balloon bomb") deployed by Japan against the United States...
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    John C. Mather (category Columbia University faculty)
    University of California, Berkeley 1974–1976 (NRC Postdoctoral Fellow), Columbia University Goddard Institute for Space Studies 1964–1968 Swarthmore College...
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    Center; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility and NASA Super Pressure Balloon Blog. Spaceflight portal Gamma-ray astronomy...
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    launched at approximately 15:10 UTC September 28, 2003 from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility base in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and landed approximately...
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    Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (category Balloon-borne experiments)
    and one in June 1999. For each flight the balloon was started at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas and flew to an altitude...
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    chosen as a launch site for NASA's high-altitude balloon program (see Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility). NASA spent about $100,000 to construct large...
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    Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (category Balloon-borne experiments)
    under the auspices of the Balloon Program Office at Wallops Flight Facility by the staff of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. Antarctic logistics are...
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    there. He also worked at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, participating in high-altitude balloon launches involving the 1-meter...
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    reviewers as cynical about human nature. But readers from a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines praised the book's unique angle and breadth of research. Ecology...
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