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Stratospheric balloons launched on 1957

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
New Brighton (MN)5/5HIGH DIVEIn Saratoga, Iowa, 15 miles west of Cresco.   
Holloman AFB (NM)5/16ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed in White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico   
Holloman AFB (NM)5/29ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed 25 miles NW os Las Cruces, New Mexico   
Fleming Field (MN)6/2MANHIGH INear Indian Creek, Minnesota, USA 
Holloman AFB (NM)6/4ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed 11 miles N of Las Cruces - New Mexico   
Holloman AFB (NM)6/6ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed 17 miles S of the Holloman Base - New Mexico   
Holloman AFB (NM)6/7ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed inside the Holloman Base - New Mexico   
Holloman AFB (NM)6/11ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed West of San Agustin Pass - New Mexico   
Holloman AFB (NM)6/13ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed inside the Holloman Base - New Mexico   
Crosby (MN)6/21-- No Data ----- No data ---   
Crosby (MN)6/21-- No Data ----- No data ---   
Crosby (MN)6/21-- No Data ----- No data ---   
Crosby (MN)6/21-- No Data ----- No data ---   
New Brighton (MN)6/28FARSIDE6 miles SE of Maple Lake, Minnesota. All the operation was inmediate because the project at this time was classified and was necesary to avoid the public atention.  
Crosby (MN)8/13-- No Data ----- No data ---   
Crosby (MN)8/19MANHIGH IIIn an alfalfa field near Frederick, South Dakota, USA 
New Brighton (MN)8/22STRATOSCOPE I - A 12 inch telescope equipped with a photoelectric pointing mechanism and an automatic camera. The instrument was build by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation.Near the town of Cosmos, Minnesota at 80 miles from launch site.   
Fort Churchill (CA)8/29-- No Data ----- No data ---   
New Brighton (MN)9/25STRATOSCOPE I - A 12 inch telescope equipped with a photoelectric pointing mechanism and an automatic camera. The instrument was build by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation.Near Athens, Winsconsin, 150 miles from launch site.   
White Sands (NM)9/27ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed in Orogrande - New Mexico   
White Sands (NM)10/8ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMYThe load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed 10 miles east of Picacho - New Mexico   
Crosby (MN)10/18STRATOLAB II--- No data ---  
  1956 1958

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