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8 The following year, the FNRS flew 9 A further twenty-five ascents followed
again. This time Auguste was accompanied over the next few years. Piccard pushed the
by a Belgian engineer, Professor Max world altitude record to 72,177 feet and
Cosyns. On August 18, they drifted high gathered vital information about the
above southern Switzerland and northern stratosphere and those strange cosmic rays.
Italy, crossed Lake Garda, and landed near As it turned out, they were not rays at all,

the Italian resort of Desenzano. This time but minute space invaders: subatomic
all went well, and they were able to make particles zooming into Earth’s atmosphere
the scientific observations they needed. from elsewhere in the universe.
What’s more, they beat their own record,
reaching an amazing 52,152 feet.

The Path of Auguste Piccard’s Second Flight
into the Stratosphere

AUSTRIA
SWITZERLAND Alps

Zurich

FRANCE

Verona

ITALY
Lake Garda
Milan
Lake Como
Lake Maggiore

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