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Stratospheric balloons launched on 1961

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Launch siteDateScientific ExperimentPayload landing site
USS Antietam4/11TEST FLIGHT--- No data ---   
USS Antietam4/13-- No Data ----- No data ---   
USS Antietam4/28-- No Data ----- No data ---   
USS Antietam5/4STRATOLAB V    
AFCRL, Chico (CA)10/24Test flight of a 300 feet diameter balloon of new design. The payload included telemetering equipment, an upward looking camera to study balloon deployment, and fine steel dust as ballast.The payload was ejected over the Atlantic Ocean in a point 200 miles east of Boston   
  1960 1962

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