Re: Popular Science - straight forward in my eyes

"In the first half hour the balloon shot upward nine miles. Through portholes, the observers saw the earth through copper-colored, the blueish, haze. It seemed a flat disk with upturned edge. At the ten-mile level the sky appeared a deep, dark blue."

popular science, august 1931, page 23

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