TWELVE MILES UP
SOVIET BAUOOH ASCENT PREVIOUS RECORD BEATEN Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, January 30. (Received January 31, at.,10 a.tn.)' ' Ascending unannounced at 5.40 in the morning, the Soviet gondola balloon named Sirius, which was built at Osoa* viakhim, with a crew of three, com* pianded by M. Fedeosenko, beat tho previous record of 20,266yd5. The crew achieved a height of .12.8 miles, front which they broadcast messages to Mu Stalin at the Communist Congress. The balloon carried an infra-red out* fit with which it was hoped to estab* lish records in distant photography. They began the descent at 9 o’clock in the morning, and expected to land at Kolomna, seventy miles from Moscow. Aeroplanes have taken off to assist in the landing, as visibility is bad. - - The crew state that they obtained valuable data on cosmic rays. The bal; loon registered an external'' temperature ol| 33deg bejow zero., .
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Evening Star, Issue 21633, 31 January 1934, Page 6
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149TWELVE MILES UP Evening Star, Issue 21633, 31 January 1934, Page 6
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