For several years scientists from the University of Iowa have been launching rockets from high-flying balloons to study cosmic rays at great altitudes. The advantage is that the rocket avoids most of the resistance of the atmosphere. A Deacon rocket, for instance, rises only about 15 miles when fired from the ground. When launched from a balloon twelve miles up, it has reached 60 miles.
In Aviation Age, Kurt R. Stehling of Bell Aircraft Corp. tells how he and R. M. Missert. a physicist from the University of Iowa, are studying this principle as a cheap and easy way of putting a...
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