Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 5/8/1980 at 00:32 pdt
Launch site: Fort Baker, California, US
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 5/12/1980 at 7:26 edt
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 99 h 54 m
Landing site: Ste.Felicite, Quebec, Canada
Postal cover issued on launch day commemorating the flight
External references
- Balloonists Cross the Continent The Washington Post, May 13, 1980
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