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'Explorer. II” carried • ton ef scientific instruments and brought b’rf 1 line-—jjileled data. It added, . jo knowledge of cosmic rays; of orone fir the upper air; of light, ‘chemical, and electrical conditions
of living spores above ’I 70 (Wi feet; and of radio tranv "’•‘■'Vin from extremely high altitudes. ■ *.:
General H. H. Arnold wrote, before his death fn 1950. that theflight “bore fruit in World War If f„r in advance of what was inv ’ ‘ agihed to be the Results at the „ ♦irne^ " * - I*
Record Stood for 21 leqn
“Explorer li's" altitude record for manned balloons remained unbroken for 21evcars In 1956 and 1957. airmen went higher in both balloon* and rocket planes, . A"d?Ser namesake/ ‘‘Explorer - III.”'is destined for another in* pv—rment but' is still untired. TWo A»r Force parachutists plan »«■ r-ke *-h<* raw balloon 90.00(1 feet or higher and tupm—to t^st
of“ Avers forcrcy to „ eWt fsftm mcket olanes // j ^•irVssh' the nsmvf'Explorer” ' «effT» to belong exclusively to the
snace age. In centuries / gone by, famous shins of exploration have hr-fv br-ve '! Endea vou r, “R“solution ”, "Adventurer,” ”FKs-, , ” “Challenger and ”In' veStigstpr ” Hut History show's no tna:or “Explorers” other than the : instniment-nscked craft that have soan»d into the-skv’s frontier.^
'Eb* gondola of N't-'onsl yhtogranbic’s “Explorer II” is nreserved >'n the A:r Museunyof the Smithsonian Institution. Washington/ R. C. But it is unlikely that the new Explorer wilt ever return. intact, from infhistoric jour-’ *ney. 4
Tho*e Russian satellites are, leythal things. So'far they have re. Suited in the death of one dog and /One tax cut" ' :
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