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1860's
In the civil war union troops,like the french army before them,use balloons to spy behand enemy lines to see how battles were going. -
1875
Three french scientists,exploring the atmosphere,soared to 25 thousand feet in a balloon. The men took bottles of oxygen with them,but when the balloon landed only one scientist had survived. -
1900
In the early 19 hundreds brougt the dirigible,or blimp. Made of sevral balloons, it was fitted with mototrs and propellers that let the piolet steer. A cabin on the under side held more than 100 people on Atlantic crossings. -
1932
The man wo invented a way to travel safely in to the atmosphere was a swiss named Auguste Piccard, Who built a ball shaped aluminim gondula. Sealed inside with oxygen tanks, He safely reached a height of 54,000 feet. -
1961
Brave men kept going higher and higher. Two u.s navy officers, malcom d. ross and victor prather., wnet up 113740 feet in suits for astronauts. -
1999
others had crossed the oceans but bertrand piccard and brian jones were the first to ballon non-stop around the world covering 30000 miles in 20 days their ballon was a cross between a hot air ballon and a gas balloon. -
2015
planes have long been the way to travel by air but you often see a dirigible carrying a tv crew above a fotball game or other sports event. -
every day
hundreds of small weather ballons explore the atmosphere and transmit their findings to earth.