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60 years ago my adolescent hero and future balloon racing competitor, Joe Kittinger, now 94 years old, famous for his stratospheric parachute jump, and first person to fly a balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean, flew amateur astronomer William White to the stratosphere in a balloon manufactured in Minneapolis, for a proof of concept mission for future space telescopes and hundreds of balloon astronomy mission still a mainstay of astronomy researchers today.

We continue to stand on the shoulders of that great generation.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/edit ... -stargazer

https://stratocat.com.ar/stratopedia/300.htm