Equipment from U. S. Army and National Geographic Society Stratosphere Balloon "Explorer 2" 208mm long, 85mm wide, 104mm 102 high; damaged in landing. American balloonists Orvil Arson Anderson (1895-1965) and Albert William Stevens (1886-1949) won the Mackay Trophy when they set a record of 72,395 feet in their balloon Explorer II in 1935.

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