Up, Up, and Away

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on March 9, 2011
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A little yellow house like the one seen in the Pixar movie Up actually went up in the air on Saturday, March 5 as part of the upcoming National Geographic Channel series “How Hard Can It Be?”. Scientists, engineers, and balloon pilots worked together to launch a life-sized model of the Up house using 300 helium balloons! Not only did the team prove that a house really could be lifted by balloons, they broke a world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted.

How far did the floating house get? It rose to a height of 10,000 feet and was in the air for about an hour.

Watch a video of the floating house on the Inside NGC blog.

Want more balloon fun? Watch this video of a dog popping balloons!

Photograph by Stewart Volland

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Comments

  1. jakey
    March 10, 2011, 9:54 pm

    this is awsome

  2. laima
    March 11, 2011, 2:47 pm

    wow that is buitifull

  3. nerdgirl
    March 12, 2011, 12:02 am

    this is soooooooooo awsome

  4. 2whitie
    March 16, 2011, 12:05 pm

    who was the lucky person who got to see a house falling from the sky?

  5. didi88
    March 16, 2011, 8:25 pm

    nice!!!

  6. turkey
    March 17, 2011, 11:43 am

    that is one awsom house.

  7. sherlockhomies
    March 17, 2011, 6:07 pm

    WOW! That is sooooooo cool. I really want to try that. It looks soooooooo fun and you’ll have a view. Can anyone tell me out there about who was in it. Or tell me when this happened. THANK YOU!

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