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In preparation for NASA’s next Super Pressure Balloon flight from Wanaka, New Zealand, NASA’s balloon team at Wallops Flight Center unpacked the top and bottom fittings of a 5,240-pound balloon March 17 to perform test and integration work prior to launch. The 18.8-million-cubic-foot (532,000-cubic-meter) balloon is enormous – about the size of a football stadium – when fully inflated. Learn more: http://go.nasa.gov/2nDjZ8R | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center