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Published online 8 February 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.85
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Test balloon breaks endurance record
NASA's pumpkin-shaped balloon stays aloft for more than 42 days.
A NASA test balloon coasting in stratospheric breezes around Antarctica broke the duration record for balloons today. It has surpassed a record set in 2005, when a balloon carried a cosmic-ray experiment aloft for almost 42 days.
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