Retro Space HD | From Gondola to Spacecraft - Stratosphere Balloon, Jeannette Piccard - Remastered NASA documentary @RetroSpaceHD | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
Remastered NASA documentary about early balloon flights and their importance to human spaceflight. Interview of Jeannette Piccard - first licensed female balloon pilot in the U.S.; first woman to fly to the stratosphere; co-inventor of the plastic balloon;

Original footage from NASA. Sound cleanup, film dust removal, conversion to the original 24 fps frame rate, geometry correction and color restoration by Retro Space HD.

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Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (1895–1981) was an American high-altitude balloonist, and in later life an Episcopal priest. She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades.

Piccard was the first licensed female balloon pilot in the U.S., and the first woman to fly to the stratosphere. Accompanied by her husband, Jean—a member of the Piccard family of balloonists and the twin brother of Auguste Piccard—she reached a height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) during a record-breaking flight over Lake Erie on October 23, 1934, retaining control of the balloon for the entire flight. After her husband's death in 1963, she worked as a consultant to the director of NASA's Johnson Space Center for several years, talking to the public about NASA's work, and was posthumously inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1998.

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