Find the best spot to watch Tuesday’s launch! 🚀 Here are some of the best public spots on the Atlantic coast. Remember to tune in to our livestream to follow along with the launch countdown: youtube.com/live/_uM-sn_xR…

Liftoff! 🚀 A sounding rocket launched at 6:00 a.m. EDT from Wallops carrying student experiments for the RockSat-X mission! Did you see the rocket? Share your pictures below!

Rocket launches… very mindful, less demure. On Aug. 13 at 6:00 a.m. EDT, a sounding rocket carrying student experiments for the RockSat-X mission successfully launched from Wallops! The payload was recovered & experiments returned to the student teams for analysis.

Our balloon team is back in Fort Sumner, New Mexico preparing to launch eight balloon flights for their fall campaign. These flights will support 16 missions including investigations for NASA Universe, NASA Sun & Space, and NASA Earth go.nasa.gov/4dLwwzd

The EXCITE scientific balloon mission is ready to fly! It’s awaiting launch opportunities during the fall campaign in Fort Sumner, NM, which runs through mid-October. Check out the rest of the lineup: go.nasa.gov/46ZZYPC

This discovery took Endurance! First hypothesized more than 60 years ago, the existence of the global electric field extending Earth’s atmosphere to space has been confirmed by NASA’s Endurance sounding rocket mission. go.nasa.gov/4e2JatS

The Exoplanet Climate Infrared Telescope (EXCITE) scientific balloon mission launched today, Aug. 31 at 9:22 EDT (7:22 MDT) from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and has reached its float altitude of 130,000 feet! Keep track of the balloon’s location here: towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/Maps/ConvGps74…

Update! EXCITE is back on the ground. The scientific balloon team can now start the process of recovering the telescope, and the EXCITE team can start analyzing the results of their test flight. Follow along with the rest of the fall balloon campaign! go.nasa.gov/4cQp3hw

Balloon update from Fort Sumner, New Mexico: The fifth flight for the fall campaign, the High-Altitude Student Platform 1 (HASP 1.0) launched at 9:54 a.m. EDT (7:54 a.m. MDT) and is currently at float at around 123,000 ft. Track the balloon here: towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/Maps/ConvGps74…

NASA's P-3 aircraft departed from Wallops this morning, Monday, Sept. 9 at 9:30 a.m. EDT for a five-hour flight to collect surface data of forests and trees in an area including parts of Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.