.NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's 5th balloon goal of the 2024 fall initiative took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Resource in Fortress Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Trainee Platform) purpose stayed in flight over 11 hours just before it securely touched down. Healing is actually underway.HASP is actually a collaboration among the Louisiana Space Give Range, the Astrophysics Branch of NASA's Science Objective Directorate, and also the agency's Balloon Plan Office as well as Columbia Scientific Balloon Location. The HASP system supports up to 12 student-built payloads and is designed to air travel exam compact gpses, prototypes, and also various other tiny practices. Given that 2006, HASP has actually engaged much more than 1,600 undergraduate as well as graduate students involved in the missions.Crews taking part in the 2024 HASP 1.0 trip consisted of: Educational institution of North Florida and Educational Institution of North Dakota Arizona State College Louisiana State College College of Colorado Rock College of the Canyons Fort Lewis College Capitol Technical College Educational Institution of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) as well as McMaster University (Canada).A brand-new, bigger version of the High-Altitude Pupil Platform (HASP 2.0) had its own engineering test flight a handful of days prior. HASP 2.0 will have the ability to fit twice as several student experiments as HASP 1.0 once functional in the next year.The remaining 3 balloon flights booked for the 2024 Fort Sumner drop campaign wait for upcoming launch options. To tail the objectives, check out NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Establishment internet site for real-time updates on balloons heights and also family doctors sites during the course of flight.To read more on NASA's Scientific Balloon Course, see:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.