VIDEO: Doomed North Pole balloon mission
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 00:30
in Astronomy & Space
In 1897 an Arctic explorer named SA Andree tried to fly to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. The book Ice Balloon recounts his doomed expedition.
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