CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...
The NASA-backed Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project puts students in charge of a bold scientific endeavor to study the April 8 total solar eclipse. On eclipse day, hundreds of students will send up ...
Student volunteers prepare two balloons for a morning launch in Cumberland, Md., as part of a nationwide project to study the April 8 eclipse. (Meredith Rizzo for NPR) Student volunteers prepare a ...