.NASA's Scientific Balloon Plan's 5th balloon mission of the 2024 autumn project flew Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the firm's Columbia Scientific Balloon Center in Fortress Sumner, New Mexico. The HASP 1.0 (High-Altitude Trainee System) mission remained in flight over 11 hours just before it carefully touched down. Recovery is underway.HASP is an alliance amongst the Louisiana Room Grant Range, the Astrophysics Department of NASA's Science Purpose Directorate, and also the organization's Balloon Plan Workplace and also Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. The HASP platform assists up to 12 student-built hauls and is actually made to tour test sleek gpses, prototypes, and other tiny experiments. Because 2006, HASP has interacted much more than 1,600 undergraduate and also graduate students involved in the purposes.Groups participating in the 2024 HASP 1.0 trip consisted of: University of North Fla as well as College of North Dakota Arizona Condition Educational Institution Louisiana State College College of Colorado Stone University of the Canyons Fortress Lewis College Capitol Building Technical University College of Arizona Universidad Nacional de Ingenieru00eda (Peru) as well as McMaster University (Canada).A new, much larger model of the High-Altitude Trainee Platform (HASP 2.0) possessed its own design test tour a couple of times prior. HASP 2.0 will manage to accommodate twice as numerous trainee experiments as HASP 1.0 as soon as operational in the upcoming year.The continuing to be three balloon flights set up for the 2024 Fortress Sumner fall campaign wait for next launch opportunities. To follow the missions, browse through NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Establishment website for real-time updates on balloons elevations and general practitioners places during the course of trip.To learn more on NASA's Scientific Balloon System, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.