Comments about ‘Utahns 'balloon' into stratosphere’

Incredible work...congratulations! If NASA would have taken on a simular project, it would have cost them $100 million or more, which is why it's time for NASA to be auctioned off the private enterprises. Great work!

Good job, guys. Love reading happy news like this.

Those are some amazing pictures. Love your website and your story. Keep up the good work

According to the rocket propuslsion equation, the least efficient part of a rocket journey is at first. The first stage accomplishes the least and burns up the most fuel. In addtion to this, a balloon could get any rocket past most of the air friction, which also causes in-efficienty

A balloon would make a great rocket first stage and allow a much smaller rocket to get up much higher.

What these guys have done is pretty neat.

I went to the website and read that the balloon burst. Have you considered using a balloon that does not burst?

Also have you considered using hydrogen? It is lighter and it doesn't escape a balloon as easily as helium, so you can get a balloon that stays aloft for perhaps many weeks or months.

How do you get your pictures back home? You probably don't but you can send them by cell phone.

Just some ideas to consider for your next flight.

It is really impressive to some of the work of Jonathan Adams being published in the local paper. Keep up the great work.

I suspect the inevitable bursting of the balloon was an intentional factor in the recovery of the payload, in a timely fashion and within driveable distance.

Ham radio operators have been doing this for years.

"If NASA would have taken on a simular project, it would have cost them $100 million or more, which is why it's time for NASA to be auctioned off the private enterprises."


Bill Cooke's office over at NASA MSFC in Huntsville does that every November and it does not cost anything near $100 million dollars a year.

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A balloon would make a great rocket first stage and allow a much smaller rocket to get up much higher."


That's been done too. The Huntsville L5 Society did a stratospheric balloon rocket launch off the east coast a few years ago.

Great to see how everything old is new again.