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 ...

His uncle, the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, developed both the pressurized balloon gondola and the bathyscaphe, which enabled human beings to climb to the top of the atmosphere and dive to the ...

For footage of one of Auguste Piccard’s balloon launches, click here. So, Trieste’s record has been broken, after fifty-nine years, and more expeditions to the deepest point in the ocean may ...

And Bertrand Piccard, 41, a Swiss psychiatrist and adventurer/philosopher on March 21 became one of the first humans to fly a balloon non-stop around the world.

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.

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 ...

Jacques' physicist father, Auguste, was the first man to take a balloon into the stratosphere and his son, Bertrand, was the first man to fly a balloon nonstop around the world.

His uncle, the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, developed both the pressurized balloon gondola and the bathyscaphe, which enabled human beings to climb to the top of the atmosphere and dive to the ...