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Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
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Malcolm Ross (balloonist)
20th-century U.S. Navy Reserve captain, atmospheric scientist, and balloonist
Malcolm David Ross was a captain in the United States Naval Reserve (USNR), an atmospheric scientist, and a balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry, with more than 100 hours flight time in gas balloons by 1961. Along with Lieutenant Commander…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Victor Prather
US Navy flight surgeon in "Project RAM" (1926–1961)
Lieutenant Commander Victor Alonzo Prather Jr. was an American flight surgeon famous for taking part in "Project RAM", a government project to develop the space suit. On May 4, 1961, Prather drowned during the helicopter transfer after the landing of the Strato-Lab V balloon…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Project Strato-Lab
US Navy 1950s–60s high-altitude manned balloon program
Project Strato-Lab was a high-altitude manned balloon program sponsored by the United States Navy during the 1950s and early 1960s. The Strato-Lab program lifted the first Americans into the upper reaches of the stratosphere since World War II. Project Strato-Lab developed out…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)