NASA's Scientific Ballooning Program |
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![Balloon in Antarctica](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090813000525im_/http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/balloon/images/balloonbar2.jpg) |
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Associated Partners
Duties | Partner |
Launch support
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National Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, Texas.
NSBF is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility.
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Contract administration
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Goddard Space Flight Center's
Wallops Flight Facility.
WFF also operates the balloon research and development program.
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Contractor
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Physical Science Laboratory, New Mexico State University at
Las Cruces.
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User community representative
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Balloon Project Scientist Jack Tueller
and the
Balloon Working Group. This group supports balloon
launches on-site, and remote operations. (Ft. Sumner, NM; Alice Springs,
Australia; Antarctica; and Lynn Lake, Canada are recent examples.)
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