The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...

Thaddeus Lowe, who once worked for President Lincoln doing aerial reconnaissance work, eventually came to Pasadena to ...

The balloon travelled through France and Belgium before reaching the UK. After arriving in British airspace, it passed through Essex, Cambridgeshire, the East Midlands and Yorkshire. By Wednesday ...

Where have balloon launches been cut back ... “Data is also collected from instruments aboard commercial aircraft, surface observing stations, satellites, radars and buoys,” the announcements ...

In late March, the National Weather Service announced it would be temporarily reducing the number of weather balloon launches ...

Staffing shortages at nearly a dozen National Weather Service offices will mean fewer weather balloon launches.

It’s close to a decade since the shapely curves of the ‘Flying Bum’ went bottoms up in a field in Bedfordshire. The test flight of what was then the largest aircraft in the world ended up ...

At least 11 National Weather Service offices have seen their twice-daily balloon launches to collect weather data suspended or reduced.

This spring, embrace what's new by seeing Washington's stunning landscape from a whole new perspective. Located just outside ...