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NFH XLTITt lK KFTOKII SI Ii\ OV |MINNESOTA TI M IMINNEAPOLIS, Sept 7 Ahelium-filled plastic balloon souredto 142.900 feet, about 20 4-5 milesjtoday to break all existing alti I twde records lor such hags. the! rniversity of Minnesota rejxirted !The balloon, built oi mylar, a new plastic compound, w as pyra j nodal in shape. 180 ieet long and carried one million cubic Ieet ot helium under its thousandth ot aninch thick skin.Kdward P. Ney and John H Winckler ot the Minnesota physicsdepartment, who designed andconducted the experiment, said theascent was alxrut 20,000 Ieet above the previous record of 125 000 setlast year by a bag sent up overMinnesota by Win/on Rescan h.Inc , Bloomington. MinnLaunched by I !.Nev said the big bag, launched by a crew of 12 at the nearby Anoka Airport this morning, car ried a 48-pound payload This in eluded devices for measing infra red radiation, air pressure andj temperatures, two cameras geared lor pictures at# one minute inter-vals, two radio transmitters tor tracking the bog and relaying in*stiuinent data, dock timers and ballastThe experiment was undertaken by the university in co-operation with the Office ot Naval Research in a continuing project for studyot cosmic ray emanationsThe bag first drifted 00 miles east ot here but later came back directly over the city. Physicists said timing apparatus was expected to explode the bag at apoint where the scientific instruments would be dropped by para chute about 30 miles east ot Minneapolis.
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1956
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