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...Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Jean Piccard, sister-in-law of Stratonaut Auguste Piccard, announced plans to pilot a balloon ascension near Detroit this summer. With her will go her husband to make scientific observations. Said Mrs. Piccard: "There really isn't much danger. . . . I'll know my two children are in good hands while I'm gone. We are anxious to avoid having to land in the ocean. And I'll be the one to worry about that...
Washington friends of Professor Auguste Piccard, Swiss stratosphere expert, were startled when he stepped out of an airplane there with his cyclone of hair clipped in a standard U. S. haircut. He explained: "Lots of people always laughed at the one that I had before...
...morning last week with a neatness that contrasted happily with eight previously bungled attempts. Up, up it sailed until it became a tiny silver bubble, then a pinpoint hanging in the sky. After about two hours the ground station received a radio flash from the Stratostat: it had passed Piccard's world record of 10 mi., was still climbing! Another three hours, and the U. S. S. R. had pulled itself up to 11.8 mi., was ready to come down. The descent went as smoothly as the ascent, the U. S. S. R. landing lightly in a meadow about...
...flight to the stratosphere by Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record and in gathering data on cosmic and ultraviolet rays. A major-general had the honor of starting the hydrogen gas hissing into the acre of white rubberized bag-biggest ever built. An admiral saw to the hooking on of the spherical gondola made...
When Professor Auguste Piccard floated back to earth from the stratosphere, he reported that the sky up there was deep, dark blue in daytime (TIME, June 8, 1931). Last week, floating down from a flight of logic. Astronomer Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory declared in the Astrophysical Journal that the universal sky should not be dark, day or night. It should be light blue. Starlight striking star dust should make the general illumination of cosmic space as blue as the daylight sky seen from the surface of Earth. If Professor Piccard makes his proposed flight from Chicago next July...