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Richard Hewitt Stewart

Ballooning pioneers Capts. Orville Anderson and Albert W. Stevens prepare for their record-setting flight above the Black Hills of South Dakota. Anderson later wrote, “The gondola returned with…information on cosmic rays, the ability of living mold spores to survive in rarified air [and] the intensity of solar radiation.”

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