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NASA Balloon Circumnavigates World in 16 Days
May 03, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 3 -- NASA issued the following news release:

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NASA Balloon Circumnavigates World in 16 Days

More than 16 days after lifting off from Wanaka, New Zealand, NASA's football-stadium-sized super pressure balloon has completed its first full circumnavigation of the globe -- a significant milestone for the test flight around the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes. The balloon crossed the 169.24 east longitude line at 7:22 a.m. Satur . . .

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