
Flying High with Auguste Piccar...
On May 27, 1931, Swiss-born aeronautical pioneer Auguste Piccard, together with his co-pilot Paul Kipfer, did something rather amazing. Encased in an aluminum capsule attached to a hydrogen balloon, they slowly made their way from Earth up into the stratosphere, the first humans to do so, and reaching an altitude of 51,775 feet—almost ten miles. […]
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