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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
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Hot-air balloon being deflated
Hot-air balloons in the 1965 U.S. National Championship balloon races at Reno, Nevada
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Surveil the surroundings from a military balloon aircraft utilized throughout World War I
View the picturesque landscape of New Zealand's Southern Alps in a hot-air balloon
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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
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Dick Smith
Australian aviator and businessman
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Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviators
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
French balloonist
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Ben L. Abruzzo
American balloonist
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Maxie Anderson
American balloonist
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Jean-Felix Piccard
American chemical engineer
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Charles Green, detail of an engraving by Hilaire Le Dru, 1835
Charles Green
British balloonist
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Albert W. Stevens
American aerial photographer
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Nicolas-Louis Robert
French inventor

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