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Stratosphere Balloon Landing
Cedar Grove Colony, South Dakota
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On Nov. 11, 1935, Explorer II, released in Black Hills and bearing Captains Orville A. Anderson and Albert W. Stevens, landed here after a record ascent to 72,395 feet, with instruments intact and with a wealth of new scientific knowledge.
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