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Events on Wednesday 27 May 1931 1
1931Piccard's first stratosphere balloon flightAuguste Piccard reaches about 15,780 metres in a pressurised gondolaThe Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer took off from Augsburg in a sealed aluminium gondola. They became the first people to reach the stratosphere. They landed safely on a glacier in the Austrian Alps.