Ajit Pai @AjitPai
OTD in 1931, humanity reached new heights—literally. Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer rode in a balloon that "was little more than a rubberized cotton gasbag" to an altitude of 51,775 feet over Augsburg, Germany, becoming 1st humans in the stratosphere. https://t.co/11DMOyR4HJ https://t.co/F6A0IDrZeh — PolitiTweet.org