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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Stratospheric Flight Day.

It is to be noted that on 27 th May in 1931, Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer flew a balloon from Augsburg,Germany, to a glacier near Innsbruck, Austria. Reaching a height of 51,793 feet during their 17-hour flight, they were the first humans to reach the stratosphere.

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