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NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC
SOCIETY
AL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
USARY AIR CORPS
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EXPLORER II HELD WORLD'S ALTITUDE RECORD-
72,395 feet-for 21 years. In a 1935 expedition
sponsored by the National Geographic Society and
the U.S. Army Air Corps, the gondola carried Capts.
A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson 225 miles across
South Dakota. National Geographic Society in
Washington, D. C., exhibits this gondola.
Ektachrome by James E. Russell National Geographic Society
