The flight of a dramatic hot air balloon cauldron at the Paris 2024 Olympics capped off an ambitious Opening Ceremony along the Seine River and marked the first time that the cauldron was ever sent ...

The entire history of balloon, from its first test pilots — a duck, sheep and rooster that traveled skyward in 1783 and the first human voyage the following year — to today's mammoth competition and ...

Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and ...