This picture is just one of many the space balloon normally takes. Credit: Solenix Mrs Buckley said there was a German phone number on the balloon. “It had a name across the top of it, it had a ...

In 2023, a Year Four pupil at Gobowen Primary School asked his then teacher, Mrs Cameron, if the school could launch a weather balloon - like one he'd seen on the internet. After looking into it ...

The balloon had been carried there by the jet stream. It was incredible. I worked out that the balloon only had a 0.55 per cent chance of landing anywhere on the Isle of Man.