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

So that's the balloon, big gas balloon.

(iv) Sanriku Balloon Centre

They make balloon animals.

And this particular balloon, because it has to launch two tons of weight, is an extremely huge balloon.

He really popped their balloon.

How do we steer a balloon?

This is a high altitude helium balloon.

The balloon was caught in the tree.

The first is to create a kind of balloon structure, fill it with bacteria, then allow the sand to wash over the balloon, pop the balloon, as it were, disseminating the bacteria into the sand and solidifying it.

It took me a while it took me years to find the right balloon team to build the balloon that would do this job.

So what if we were living in balloon houses?

This kind of diagram is called a balloon race.

Well, in a balloon it's easy, we have ballast.

It's a real pump. You could actually pop the balloon.

All the leopard seal was doing it's just biting a balloon.

But you know, even holding one balloon is like, kind of happy.

The balloon launch site is on a hill 230 metres above sea level. The control centre stands beside the launch site, where launch control and assembly of the balloon and its payload are conducted.

Now this is a little pump with which you could inflate a balloon.

Here's a scene that shows you the balloon and the payload end to end.

And again, I couldn't go. But it's a fascinating group. They make balloon animals.

Because in the balloon, like in life, we go very well in unforeseen directions.

Of course not just like the atmosphere in the balloon, but in life itself.

And that's where they do their experiments, and then the balloon, the payload, is brought down.

Here's the balloon being filled up with helium, and you can see it's a gorgeous sight.

It needs to be rocket powered or one of these things, a great big gas balloon.

Now just to give you some perspective of this balloon, the little black dots are people.

And the balloon hit the sea and went shooting back up to 10,000 feet without me.

And, I mean, first of all we nobody had actually crossed the Atlantic in a hot air balloon before, so we had to build a hot air balloon that was capable of flying in the jet stream, and we weren't quite sure, when a balloon actually got into the jet stream, whether it would actually survive the 200, 220 miles an hour winds that you can find up there.

So, you have some really happy person holding 10 balloons, and some really sad soul holding one balloon.

Shortly after that I got invited to speak at the convention of the people who make balloon animals.

And it anchors itself in the sand by blowing up a balloon on the end of its stock.

My balloon will expand to 500 times and look like a big pumpkin when it's at the top.

And we were just crossing every finger, praying that the balloon would hold together, which, fortunately, it did.

I've got, you know, this enormous balloon above me, it's the biggest parachute ever, why not use it?

But actually I had to go around the world in a balloon to be invited to talk about it.

RB Well, I think the balloon adventures were each one was, each one, actually, I think we came close.

The Sanriku Balloon Centre is located at Sanriku cho, on the east coast of Iwate Prefecture, facing the Pacific Ocean.

This Water Leisure Sports also includes the International Aquabike Open, City Beach Balloon Volleyball Game, and Canoe Wild Water Contest.

This is the DARPA balloon challenge, where they hid a couple balloons all across the United States and said, Use networks.

So you're using a balloon to carry something that is two tons all the way to an altitude of 40 km.

For instance, here they are laying down the balloon fabric behind, which is eventually going to be filled up with helium.

Everybody sitting in a basket, and I was on top of the balloon, ready to slide down with my skysurf board.

Well, he kept the balloon filled to block the artery, to simulate a blockage, which is what a heart attack is.

Other uses of ground network facilities include tracking and data acquisition services to sounding rocket, high altitude balloon, and aeronautical research missions.