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 ...

On 20 March,1999 the Breitling Orbiter 3 became the first balloon to achieve an around-the-world flight when Piccard and Jones flew 29,000 miles in 19 days, 21hours and 47 minutes.

The bathyscaph was a deep submergence vehicle, or DSV, invented by Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard. It was no ordinary submarine. In fact, Trieste had been further described as a deep-diving ...

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.

Piccard competed against both men, at different times and over the years, as each sought to become the first to circumnavigate the world in a gas balloon without stopping.

Exploration ran in the Piccard family. 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 non ...

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

To frail, spindly, gentle Auguste Piccard, the stratosphere is not merely a remote layer of the atmosphere. It is an environment, a kingdom, a marvelous sea in which to swim; an Olympus from which ...

When newsmen at Zurich, Switzerland last week wondered why Professor Auguste Piccard continued to postpone his balloon ascension into the stratosphere, even when weather appeared favorable, the ...

Piccard’s grandfather, Swiss inventor Auguste Piccard, defied common beliefs to create the first high-altitude hot air balloon and became the first person to enter the stratosphere.

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.

In 1931, Piccard’s grandfather, Auguste, was the first person to fly into the stratosphere in a balloon; his father, Jacques, was the first man to explore the deepest point in the ocean, the ...