In this episode, Tom Goodwin talks to Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist, aviator, and global explorer, about green ...

Auguste Piccard and an assistant took a gas-filled ... It’s predecessor, Explorer I, was a hydrogen balloon, and despite reaching 18,475 meters, had a violent drop in altitude followed by ...

Hydrogen has up to three times more energy per kilo than traditional aviation fuel, says Piccard, who in 1999 also completed the first non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon.

(Fifty years later Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones used ... I had never flown a paper balloon before. I had never flown with hydrogen before. Nor had I ever flown with an overcast sky before ...

Paid and presented by Syensqo. In 1927, Auguste Piccard ignited global fascination with aviation when he soared into the stratosphere in a hydrogen balloon, proving that science and exploration go ...

We release more hydrogen.” The media reported Piccard ... American, European, and Russian news reports pictured Piccard’s stratostat balloon as having risen dramatically beyond the very ...

Piccard's first bathyscaph, the FNRS-2, was referred to as the "submarine balloon" because its heavy-metal ballast, attached by electromagnets, allowed it to sink to a desired depth when engaged ...

In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon. In 2005, a 17-year-old boy at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in ...