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The History of Hot-air Balloons
The conquest of the upper atmosphere and outer space would not have been
possible without the endeavours made by adventurous balloonists. It took a great deal of
courage for the first man to step into a tiny basket and rise high into the air on 5 June
1783 the French papermakers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne
Montgolfier, built a large fire over which they placed a massive balloon of linen and paper.
As soon as the air under the balloon heated up, the balloon inflated and began to rise.
The people who watched this fascinating feat were completely awestruck.
On 9 September of the same year, the brothers launched yet another hot-air
balloon. It was brightly coloured and the attached basket carried a duck, a rooster and a
sheep. The balloon rose high into the air and landed back safely. but when the balloon
hit the ground, the sheep fell on top of the rooster and broke one of its wings! Encouraged
by the success of these two trips, on 21 November, De Rozier and Marquis De Arlandes
became the first humans ever to travel in air. Their 25-minute flight covered approximately
nine kilometres and attained an altitude of 3,000 feet before landing on the outskirts of
Paris.
One of the most daring and tragic flights was undertaken in 1927 by Captain Gray.
an American flyer and scientist. On 4 November, he flew up into the atmosphere in an
open gondola and a little later the ground crew lost sight of him. As he travelled higher
and higher, he kept noting down how his body was reacting to the atmosphere. He wrote
that he trembled at 10,000 feet and he was compelled to use his oxygen mask. When he​

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