Radio Okay, release the balloon, release the balloon, release the balloon.

It generates all of the buoyancy, all of the payload for the craft, and the batteries are down here hanging underneath, exactly like a balloon.

And just like a balloon with the last bit of air, just, just right out of the balloon, I just felt my energy lift and just I felt my spirit surrender.

And what they have to do is they have to assemble the entire balloon the fabric, parachute and everything on the ice and then fill it up with helium.

After Andrée, Strindberg, and Frænkel lifted off from Svalbard in July 1897, the balloon lost hydrogen quickly and crashed on the pack ice after only two days.

This is Beatrix. She has a dog named Ajax, she has purchased a dirigible a small dirigible she's assembling the structure, Ajax is sniffing for holes in the balloon before they set off.

But the balloon that has deflated the most may be the one that Obama sent aloft in Prague in April 2009, when he made the case for rapid and serious movement toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

So the balloon is being filled up with helium on the left hand side, and the fabric actually runs all the way to the middle where there's a piece of electronics and explosives being connected to a parachute, and then the parachute is then connected to the payload.

S. A. Andrée (1854 97), the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way.

Now, this type of surgery is hard, and it starts by putting people to sleep, putting carbon dioxide in their abdomen, blowing them up like a balloon, sticking one of these sharp pointy things into their abdomen it's dangerous stuff and taking instruments and watching it on a TV screen.

And the winner was actually a group out of MIT, where they created sort of a pyramid scheme, a network, where the first person to recommend the location of a balloon got 2,000 and anyone else to push that recommendation up also got a cut of it.

Eagerly followed by national and international media, he began negotiations with the well known aeronaut and balloon builder Henri Lachambre in Paris, world capital of ballooning, and ordered a varnished three layer silk balloon, 20.5 meters (67 ft) in diameter, from his workshop.

And then he did it again. We filled the balloon again a few minutes later and here you see, even after 10 seconds, a great rise in this piece, which we can have computers inside, under your chest like a pacemaker, with a wire into your heart like a pacemaker.