Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 6/30/1959 at
Launch site: Joe Foss field, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US
Balloon launched by: Raven Industries Inc.
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 6/30/1959
Landing site: Balloon lost in a thunderstorm. Never recovered
External references
- Table of biological experiments in US unmanned ballon flights in Animals and man in space a chronology and annotated bibliography through the year 1960, Pag. 24
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