.NASA's Scientific Balloon Plan's fifth balloon mission of the 2024 loss project flew Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the company's Columbia Scientific Balloon Center in Fortress Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Student System) objective remained in flight over 11 hrs just before it safely touched down. Recovery is actually underway.HASP is a collaboration amongst the Louisiana Space Grant Consortium, the Astrophysics Branch of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and the company's Balloon Program Office as well as Columbia Scientific Balloon Amenities. The HASP platform sustains around 12 student-built hauls as well as is designed to trip exam small satellites, prototypes, and also other tiny experiments. Since 2006, HASP has actually involved much more than 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students associated with the missions.Crews joining the 2024 HASP 1.0 air travel included: Educational institution of North Florida as well as University of North Dakota Arizona Condition University Louisiana Condition University Educational Institution of Colorado Boulder College of the Canyons Fort Lewis University Capitol Building Technical College College of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) and also McMaster Educational Institution (Canada).A brand new, bigger model of the High-Altitude Trainee System (HASP 2.0) possessed its own engineering test trip a couple of days prior. HASP 2.0 will certainly have the ability to accommodate two times as numerous pupil experiments as HASP 1.0 the moment operational in the next year.The remaining three balloon trips booked for the 2024 Fort Sumner fall initiative await following launch opportunities. To follow the purposes, see NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Location internet site for real-time updates on balloons heights and general practitioners locations during tour.For more information on NASA's Scientific Balloon Course, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.