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This 1977 film provides an overview of the National Scientific Balloon Facility at Palestine, Texas. The film depicts the operations required for each balloon flight at the NSBF, including pre-launch preparations, the launch itself, tracking and data acquisition, and recovery. Launches of two instruments are followed in some detail: a NASA telescope used for studying cosmic transmissions in the far infrared and a giant magnetic spectrometer with which physicists from the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories hoped to find evidence of antimatter. Film by Elmer Armstrong, Marsh Lovrien, and G. J. Collenberger. Additional assistance from Charles Semmer, Ron Cox, Barbara Mericle, Philip Dauber, and the staff and crew of NSBF. (Color, sound.)
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This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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This 1977 film provides an overview of the National Scientific Balloon Facility at Palestine, Texas. The film depicts the operations required for each balloon flight at the NSBF, including pre-launch preparations, the launch itself, tracking and data acquisition, and recovery. Launches of two instruments are followed in some detail: a NASA telescope used for studying cosmic transmissions in the far infrared and a giant magnetic spectrometer with which physicists from the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories hoped to find evidence of antimatter. Film by Elmer Armstrong, Marsh Lovrien, and G. J. Collenberger. Additional assistance from Charles Semmer, Ron Cox, Barbara Mericle, Philip Dauber, and the staff and crew of NSBF. (Color, sound.)
Copyright UCAR
This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
INFO_B22_019
