Steward Observatory balloon mission breaks NASA record 22 miles above Antarctica

Riding stratospheric air currents 120,000 feet above the Antarctic continent and collecting far infrared radio emissions from the matter between stars, the GUSTO balloon mission has broken the record as NASA’s longest-flying heavy-lift balloon mission. The previous record stood at 55 days, 1 hour and 34 minutes.

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