Ten Miles up in the Air
BELGIAN SCIENTIST DISAPPEARS INTO SPACE Received Thursday, 1.15 a.m. LONDON, May 27. An Augsburg message says that sun had not risen when Professor Picard, the Belgian scientist, accompanied by his assistant, M. Krappe, ascended, in his haloon, which was soon a speck. He is journeying ten miles up to penetrate and examine the strata of the atmosphere. He is supremely confident of establishing a height record, but it is not known when and where he will descend. A later message states that it is estimated that Picard is now 38,000 feet up. Picard, in the middle of last September, . made an attempt to ascend in a balloon in order to measure cosmic radiation and ionisation in the air. The attempt was a fiasco, as there was not enough gas in the balloon to enable it .to rise.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1931, Page 5
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