PROFESSOR PICCARD
SECOND BALLOON ASCENT TO BE MADE IN JUNE Press Asccciation—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 30.' (Received May 31, at 9 a.m.) The Brussels correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ states that Professor Piccard is to make a second ascent into the stratosphere at Zurich in mid-June. If successful he will go to the Hudson Bay region for a third ascent to study the Aurora and the cosmic rays. [Professor Auguste Piccard and HenKipper ascended from Augsburg on May 27 fast year in an hermetically sealed cylinder attached to a huge balloon. After seventeen hours in the air they reached a height of nearly ten miles. They landed safely on a glacier in the Oetz Alps on the Austro-Italian frontier, having gained valuable knowledge regarding the upper air.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 9
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126PROFESSOR PICCARD Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 9
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