 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 20 DAYS BALLOONISTS PICCARD, JONES CLOSE IN ON RECORD VOYAGE.(News)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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March 20, 1999
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The Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon was less than one day's flying time last night from achieving what had thwarted balloonists for two centuries: A non-stop voyage around the world.
The big balloon's pilots - Dr. Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss psychiatrist, and Brian Jones, a British balloonist - radioed a message to their ground crew headquarters at Geneva Airport that for the first time during their 19 days aloft, they had begun to relax. It appeared virtually certain that the...
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