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Determination of whether cosmic rays resemble electrons or photons and their origin may be settled by data collected by Albert W. Stevens, lecturer in aerophotography, and Orvil A. Anderson in their stratosphere flight Monday, according to Harlan T. Stetson, research associate in Physics, who, among others, advised Captain Stevens about his scientific instruments when he was at Harvard last spring...
...disaster, was carefully avoided. Instead of explosive hydrogen, safe helium gas was chosen. Equally improved was everything else. By June 5, these preparations had cost the U. S. Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society, joint sponsors of the flight, some $175,000. Then for a month Captains Orvil A. Anderson and Albert W. Stevens twiddled impatiently, waiting for good weather on high. Last week it came. Joyfully, the camp went to work. Without shoes and wearing cotton gloves to protect the rubbery fabric, 300 soldiers gingerly smoothed out the bag, examined every inch for adhesions. After supper they...
...scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert W. Stevens (scientific observer), famed aerial photographer; and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, longtime lighter-than-airman...