After the balloon ascended to a sufficient height, Broadwick would release the parachute.

My apparatus all continued in good order, and the balloon still ascended without any perceptible vacillation.

The balloon had slipped from the boy's hand and ascended to a nook on the ceiling.

When they came to the place from which the balloon had ascended, they raised their weapons.

But then the authorities declared that the balloons could ascend.

After an hour, the balloon has ascended to almost 100,000 feet (30,480 meters).

Tethered balloons would ascend to as high as a mile, but were easy to shoot down.

The balloon will ascend to altitudes of about 115,000 feet (35 km) before it bursts.

Be sure to call in advance as the balloon does not ascend in windy conditions.

If the weather is uncooperative, the balloons will ascend on other evenings.