The project is being run by the Mars Society, and will build from high-altitude tests to eventual orbital flight in 2011.

It conducted its second high-altitude test at the same airport in 2009.

The high-altitude nuclear tests of 1962 increased the awareness of EMP beyond the original group of defense scientists.

The Soviet Union began high-altitude nuclear tests, by launching two missiles from Kapustin Yar.

The United States completed six high-altitude nuclear tests in 1958, but the high-altitude tests of that year raised a number of questions.

During the ensuing high-altitude test, on two successive occasions, the IAe 33 stalled inadvertently, although Tank had sufficient height at 9,000 m for recovery.

It was the site of an air base during World War II and of high-altitude nuclear tests in 1958 and 1962.

In mid-2004, the Kaveri failed its high-altitude tests in Russia, ending the last hopes of introducing it with the first production Tejas aircraft.

Prisoners were placed in pressure chambers and subjected to high-altitude tests until they ceased breathing.

The Soviets detonated four high-altitude tests in 1961 and three in 1962.