Comments on: 10-mile Ascent Paves Way for Stratosphere Planes (Aug, 1931)

By: David Moisan

David Moisan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:43:35 +0000

This is more remarkable and a bigger acheivement in some ways than what came later. The cite of 2000 miles of very very thin atmosphere is not that off; even in low earth orbit there are air molecules to hit, see Skylab.

By: MrG

MrG — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:29:55 +0000

Duh, used old filename, this works better:

http://www.vectorsite.net/avbloon.html

By: MrG

MrG — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:28:24 +0000

This effort actually touched off what amounted to a 1930s “space race” between the US
and the USSR — see:

http://www.vectorsite.net/tabloon.html