Talk:Manned balloon altitude records

Merger soon.
I removed the merger tag because I will soon perform the merger. I will post again when I complete the task.Kville105125 17:37, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

This article was tagged for merge into Flight altitude record for almost a year, I believe. Kville, I suppose you got busy... I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of performing this merge. For the record, the body of this article is here. (You may wish to check I didn't drop anything or otherwise err in blending this into the destination.) I also carried over the "See also", "External links", and category tag and merged those. Flight altitude record is still quite rough. The merge of these rather prosy item into the mere list that was there made for some jarring style issues. Feel free to improve it over there. Hult041956 (talk) 01:37, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 113,740 ft (34,668 m) May 4, 1961 Commander Malcolm D. Ross and Lieutenant Commander Victor A. Prather, Jr. (US Navy) Strato-Lab program, USS Antietam. After their ascent, the two landed in the Gulf of Mexico. In the final minutes of the mission, Prather mistakenly assumed that he was out of danger, and opened the helmet to his pressure suit; however, as he was climbing the ladder to the rescue helicopter, he fell off and drowned when his suit filled with water.
 * 102,800 ft (31,333 m) August 16, 1960 Joseph Kittinger jumped from the Excelsior III.
 * 39,000 ft (11,887 m) September 1862, Coxwell and Glaisher,  both lost consciousness during the ascent due to the low air pressure and cold temperature &minus;11 °C  (12 °F).
 * 9,000 ft (2,743 m)  December 1783 Jacques Alexandre Charles and Marie-Noel Robert (France) made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon to about 2,000 feet (610 m). Then Charles ascended alone to the record altitude.
 * 80 ft (24 m) August 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (France),  the first ascent in a hot-air balloon.