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Idea for glass balloons gets UMR graduate student international recognition

Posted by on July 19, 2007

Making a balloon out of glass might not seem like such a great idea on the surface – but Hank Rawlins, a graduate student in metallurgical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, thinks glass balloons might turn out to be the best way to put monitoring equipment in the upper atmosphere.         

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