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Project Genetrix, also known as WS-119L, was a program run by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1950s under the guise of meteorological research. [1] It launched hundreds of surveillance balloons that flew over China, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union to collect intelligence on their nuclear capabilities.
A Skyhook balloon launched in 1957 to photograph the Sun. Skyhook balloons were high-altitude balloons developed by Otto C. Winzen and General Mills, Inc.They were used by the United States Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) in the late 1940s and 1950s for atmospheric research, especially for constant-level meteorological observations at very high altitudes.
The high-altitude balloon program that collected these samples was known as Project Grab Bag. The Balloon and Meteorological Systems Group of General Mills, Inc. (GMI) had developed, along with other organizations, constant-level balloon systems capable of reliably carrying instruments and other equipment high into the stratosphere for ...
Jean Piccard. Jean Felix Piccard (January 28, 1884 in Basel, Switzerland – January 28, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ), also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss -born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeannette, the plastic balloon.
History of military ballooning. L'Entreprenant at the Battle of Fleurus (1794) Balloons and kites were the first inventions used in aerial warfare and their primary role was reconnaissance. Balloons provided an reliable and stable means of elevating an observer high over the battlefield to obtain a birds-eye view of troop positions and movements.
Charles B. Moore. Charles Bachman Moore Jr. (October 28, 1920 – March 2, 2010) was an American physicist, engineer and meteorologist, known for his research on atmospheric physics and his work with gas balloons. He was born in Maryville, Tennessee .
Ed Yost. Paul Edward Yost (June 30, 1919 – May 27, 2007) was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." [1] He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the early 1950s until he left to establish Raven Industries in 1956, along with several ...
The Cessna Citation jet was flying at an altitude of 43,000 feet when it spotted the balloon about 20 miles north of Kansas City International Airport travelling at about 50,000 feet.