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In the civil war union troops like the french army before them used balloons to spy behind enemy lines to see how battles were going.
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Three french scientists exploring the atmosphere soared to 25,000 feet in a balloon. the men took bottles of oxegen with them but when the balloon landed only one scientist survived.
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The early 1900s brought the dirigible ,or blimp. made of several balloons ,it was fitted with moters and popellers that let the pilot steer.
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The man who invented a way to travel saftly high into the atmosphere was a swiss named Auguste Piccard, who biult an aluminum gondala .sealed inside with oxegen tanks he saftly reached a hight of 54,000 feet.
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Brave men kept going higher and higher. two U.S navy officers MalcomD. ross and Victor Parther JR went 113,740 feet in an open gondola to test space suits for astronauts.
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Others had crossed the oceans,but Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were the first to balloon non-stop around the world converting 30,000 miles in20 days. their balloon was a cross between a hot air balloon and a gas balloon.
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Planes have long been a way to travel by air , but you often see a dirigible carriing a tv crew above a football game or other sports events.
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Hundreds of weather balloon s explore the atmosphere and transmit their findings to earth.