As crazy as using endurance aircraft to broadcast internet around the globe sounds, Project Loon isn't alone in pursuing this path to a better-connected world. Facebook with its solar-powered Aquila ...

CARIBOU, Maine — Hundreds of multicolored balloons used Thursday to launch a balloonist for a trans-Atlantic crossing look like a page taken from the script of the movie “Up.” Instead of using a ...

In the Pixar movie Up, a man lifts his house up and away using a huge bundle of colorful balloons. Real-life "cluster ballooners" attempted last weekend to break the world record for longest tandem ...

Jonathan Trappe used 300 helium-filled balloons%2C like those used in in the movie %27Up%27 He%27d worked on the trans-Atlantic crossing for 2 years He left from ...

Internet access is increasingly being recognized as a necessity like food, water and shelter -- and Google doesn't want anyone left out in the cold. Before leaving office, President Barack Obama ...

CARIBOU, Maine A North Carolina man has failed in his attempt to float across the Atlantic under a cluster of balloons. Jonathan Trappe's representatives say a technical glitch just 12 hours into his ...

Last May 28, Jonathan Trappe became the first person to fly across a major body of water—the English Channel—while strapped to a cluster of balloons. Flight preparations had begun at midnight, ...