Balloon Explorium Inc.
The Balloon Explorium is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization of volunteers bringing year round school education programs to New Mexico elementary schools by utilizing ballooning concepts.
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1998
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Balloon Explorium Inc. Balloon Explorium's 2009 Paper Takes Flight event. 486 5th graders and 122 Tissue Paper Balloons

2009 Paper Takes Flight
124 new photos
November 20 at 2:22pm
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Balloon Explorium Inc. Local TV Stations News coverage of the Balloon Explorium's Paper Takes Flight Event

2009 Balloon Explorium's Paper Takes Flight - News Coverage [HQ]
Length:3:33
November 19 at 11:14pm
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Balloon Explorium Inc.
Balloon Explorium Inc.
We try to avoid sending flaming balloons of destruction aloft. All you need is for one of them to come down and land on a house or dry vegetation and then all the good you've done goes up in flames - literally.
November 25 at 10:13am
Vicki Cederberg
Vicki Cederberg
The burt balloons don't take off, they just burn.
November 27 at 7:12am
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Balloon Explorium Inc. Come join us for the 2009 Paper Takes Flight event at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. See the results of giving 486 fifth graders: 2196 sheets of tissue paper, 244 glue sticks, 1220 feet of drywall tape, and 122 feet of string. There should be about 122 tissue paper balloons going up from 9:00 am to noon.

2009 Paper Takes Flight
Come watch the results of giving 486 5th graders 244 sticks of glue and 2196 sheets of tissue paper.
Time:9:00AM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum
November 13 at 1:05pm
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Balloon Explorium Inc. Check out our new 11 minute video of teachers making 6' Tissue Paper Balloons at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, October 9, 2009. Click the Video tab above.

October 12 at 10:25am
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Balloon Explorium Inc. 11 minute video of teachers making 6' Tissue Paper Balloons at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, October 9, 2009.

Paper Takes Flight - Instructions for a 6' Tissue Balloon [HQ]
Length:10:56
October 12 at 9:28am
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Frank
Frank
Very nice. Might use a voice over to confirm the instructions and a little fun music. Way cool. Thanks.
October 12 at 2:28pm
Balloon Explorium Inc.
Balloon Explorium Inc.
I still have the files so a voice over by someone in the media that has a good audio voice (hint hink Craig) might eventually be persuaded to do a voice over.
October 12 at 3:01pm
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Balloon Explorium Inc. Wear your support for the Balloon Explorium, or at least display it on your wall. Search for "balloon explorium" in the Flair application to get your own Balloon Explorium button. Don't use Flair? Then send a Balloon Explorium Flair button using Ballooning Presents, the virtual gifting application built by the Balloon Explorium.

Enjoy!

January 31 at 9:01am · Report
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Balloon Explorium Inc. We have finally posted up the video for the Balloon Explorium's 2008 Paper Takes Flight Event. Check out this 10 minute video in the block on the right.

January 14 at 3:14pm · Report
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Balloon Explorium Inc. Video of Balloon Explorium's 2008 Paper Takes Flight Event held during the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum's Montgolfier Days Celebration.

2008 Paper Takes Flight Event [HQ]
Length:10:02
January 14 at 2:17pm
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Balloon Explorium Inc. This was a 60 second Eastern Airlines commercial from the mid-1960s. It was filmed in France with an exact working replica of the Montgolfier Balloon. The reenactment of the first manned flight was complete with a large cast in period 1783 costume. Produced by Dennis Powers. Narrated by Orson Wells.

Montgolfier Flight - Eastern Airlines Wings of Man [HQ]
Length:1:39
December 22, 2008 at 9:14pm
Joel Johnstone
Joel Johnstone
For those of you that have flown a tissue paper balloon - notice that they used the same process in 1783 as we do today. Stick the paper balloon over a heat source, get it hot, and let it go! It comes down when it cools down.
December 22, 2008 at 9:47pm
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Balloon Explorium Inc. These are some of the tissue paper balloons that we have built. Some you could say are "experimental"

Interesting Tissue Balloon Designs
4 new photos
December 3, 2008 at 4:35pm
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Balloon Explorium Inc. The Balloon Museums public event celebrating the Montgolfier Brothers first flight was very fun. We helped kids and parents make about 12 of the small 2' high tissue paper balloons and flew them. We used the instructions "Sixth-Grade Aeronauts" from Science and Children (Sept/89), National Science Teachers Associatio...n found on our website. Participants were able to build them in a fairly short period of time, took only 4 full size pieces of tissue paper and they flew ok. They didn't go real high like the 6' ones the students build for Paper-Takes-Flight but they demonstrated the concepts.

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Balloon Explorium Inc. The Montgolfier Days & Paper Takes Flight event was a huge success. Thank's to all the students and teachers that participated. Pictures are available under Photos section on the right. Stay tuned for a video of the event soon. Thanks to all the students and teachers who participated.

November 21, 2008 at 10:31am · Report