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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.”
Straining at its leashes, Explorer II's helium-filled envelope seemed eager to escape the confines of the Stratobowl. Minutes later, the balloon carried the National Geographic-Army Air Corps-sponsored expedition 72,395 feet into the stratosphere.
Man of La Venta; archeologists study a monumental stone head in La Venta, Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo.
Surfers pose in front of their boards in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1937. During the 1930s, surfboards were made of wood, and often weighed more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms).