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Balloon ascension in Rossville, Kansas
This is a photograph of a hot air balloon ascension in Rossville, Kansas from 1909. ON August 17, 1978, three Americans completed the first successful transatlantic balloon flight. The group had launched the balloon, called Double Eagle II, From Presque Isle, Maine and landed in Miserey, France. The total flight time was about 137 hours.
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