Bob Ballard, Jacques Cousteau, or even James Cameron. Then there are adventurers who take to the skies: Chuck Yeager, Neil ...

GURGL, Austria, May 28, 1931 (UP) - The balloon expedition of Prof. Auguste Piccard into the stratosphere above the known layers of atmosphere around the earth came to a successful conclusion ...

AUGSBURG, Bavaria, May 27, 1931 (UP) - Two men in an aluminum ball, suspended from a great balloon, were tossed erratically by the winds over the Bavarian Alps tonight.

Professor Piccard is now in Brussels, July 1, 1932, where he is making preparations to beat his own record for 10 mile ascent into the stratosphere in a special balloon. (AP Photo) Prof. Auguste ...

At 3:05 a.m. on Aug. 5, 1933, 50,000 spectators roared as the largest hot air balloon ever built lifted off from Soldier Field, glowing in the illumination of powerful floodlights. Tethered to the … ...

But that changed in 1931 when Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard and partner Paul Kipfer used a pressured capsule, carried by a hydrogen balloon to become the first humans in the stratosphere.

Auguste Piccard's great bathyscaphe, the Trieste, ... In April 1999, when Bertrand Piccard completed a round-the-world balloon trip with Briton Brian Jones, ...

Piccard died at his Lake Geneva home in Switzerland, the company Solar Impulse said. Exploration ran in the Piccard family. Jacques' physicist father, Auguste, was the first man to take a balloon ...