On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stood at the edge of his balloon's gondola, 19 and a half miles above the Earth's surface, and leapt out into the near vacuum of the stratosphere. Almost 14 ...

Don and Brian Cleaver are the father-and-son team from Toms River who launched a Jersey Shore aeronautical adventure into the ...

To this end, Loon used NOAA-provided wind data for the stratosphere (starting between 10 and 20 km altitude). Each balloon would be directed to a layer where the air current was headed in the ...

The stratosphere is the atmospheric layer extending from 10 km to about 50 km in altitude above the Earth's surface. Below this is the troposphere, which is in contact with the oceans and ...

The restaurant, located 844 feet above the Las Vegas Strip in the Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower, rotates 360 degrees every 80 minutes. Besides the regular menu, Celebrity Chef Rick Giffen and ...

This was the carriage of a homemade weather balloon that had risen 21 miles into the stratosphere and drifted 25 miles east. Mysteries of the deep: Jersey Shore professor seeks clues for alien ...