Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 71 — page 86: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION were impossible for a launch- ing—whatever it may be, you can be sure that a balloon is mixed up in it somewhere. And the future plans that balloonatics have for their friendly craft are more than astounding. Although the maximum height thata balloon can ascend is in the region of twenty-eight miles, schemes are afoot for scientists to ascend far higher than the previous balloon height record, set up by Captains A. W. Stevens and O. A, Anderson in the Explorer IT, on the 11th November, 1935. They reached an altitude of 13.7 miles. But the scientists ascending in the new project are not going up merely to break records—they intend to jump out and descend by parachute—all in the line of scientific research. Most certainly, the day of the balloon is not over. conmiclsooks.conm