The world of sport ballooning lost one of its pioneers with the death of Don Piccard on September 14, 2020. He was involved in the renaissance of hot air ballooning and a true pioneer of the sport.

Mme. Auguste Piccard put her foot down. Middle-aged professors, she declared, especially her husband, should not risk their lives year after year making record-breaking balloon flights into the ...

The quest for the cosmic ray was a four-ring circus last week. The main purpose of Belgian Professor Auguste Piccard’s stratosphere balloon flight (see p. 32) was to record the effect of cosmic rays ...

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