Word: stratonaut
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...Cabrillo Beach, Calif., Stratonaut Jean Piccard, swimming under water, bumped heads with another underwater swimmer, was treated for cuts & bruises...
...rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich Regener at Stuttgart had sent up sounding balloons to 20 miles, had demonstrated increasing cosmic ray intensity to that height, which no stratonaut since has approached. Meanwhile Millikan and Compton were assembling their cosmic ray information and formulating theories from airplane flights, mountain tops, lake bottoms...
Angel Cake. To be the first licensed woman balloonist and the first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
...Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Jean Piccard, sister-in-law of Stratonaut Auguste Piccard, announced plans to pilot a balloon ascension near Detroit this summer. With her will go her husband to make scientific observations. Said Mrs. Piccard: "There really isn't much danger. . . . I'll know my two children are in good hands while I'm gone. We are anxious to avoid having to land in the ocean. And I'll be the one to worry about that...
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