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Stratospheric balloons launched on 1950

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
Holloman AFB (NM)5/??-- No Data --After a trip of 7,000 miles was recovered in Myrdal, Norway.   
Holloman AFB (NM)7/21First polyethylene balloon launched at Holloman by USAF personnel.--- No data ---   
White Sands (NM)8/29TEST FLIGHT--- No data ---   
White Sands (NM)8/29TEST FLIGHTBalloon landed about half a mile of the launch site.   
White Sands (NM)9/8First attempt of a stratospheric flight of a living being in a pressurised capsule. Failed.All mices dead due to a capsule leakage and depressurization.   
White Sands (NM)9/16Test flight. Equipment only.--- No data ---   
Holloman AFB (NM)9/28ANIMAL CAPSULE--- No data ---   
White Sands (NM)9/28First succesfull flight in stratosphere of a living beign (8 white mice in a presurissed gondola).--- No data ---   
  1949 1951

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