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NAOMI KOPPEL, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-20-1999
Piccard Follows Family's Footsteps

GENEVA (AP) -- Doing things nobody has ever done before comes naturally to the Piccard family.

Balloonist Bertrand Piccard on Saturday became the first to go around the world nonstop in a balloon, following an adventuring tradition that began in 1931 when his physicist grandfather Auguste and his partner became the first men ever to take a balloon into the stratosphere, rising to 51,775 feet, or almost 10 miles. Three years later, Auguste's twin brother, Jean-Felix, went even higher -- to 11 miles ...

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