The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 21st, 1999
Doing things nobody has ever done before comes naturally to the Piccard family.
Balloonist Bertrand Piccard on Saturday became the first to go around the world non-stop in a balloon, following an adventuring tradition that began in 1931 when his physicist grandfather Auguste and his partner became the first men ever to take a balloon into the stratosphere, rising to 51,775 feet, or almost 10 miles.
Three years later, Auguste Piccard's twin brother, Jean-Felix, went even higher to 11 miles in a stratosphere ascent in the United States. Auguste Piccard then set about creating a super submarine...
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