Up, Up, and Away With Weather Balloons
By Erica McNamee of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD As a kid, you were always taught to hold tight to balloons—tie them around your wrist, even, to keep them close. This week, a group of a dozen undergraduate students participating in NASA’s 2026 Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), unlearned old balloon-wrangling habits—and let go. Their purpose: to collect data aboutContinue Reading












