What did the first man to reach the stratosphere

What did the first man to reach the stratosphere

What did the first man to reach the stratosphere have to say about the Earths shape? Quote "It seemed a flat disk with an upturned edge" Dr August Piccard 1931 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so: Genesis 1:7 http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-7.htm In 1931, Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard became the first man to reach the stratosphere. Three decades later, in 1960, his son Jacques became the first to reach the ocean’s deepest point. On 27 May 1931, Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer took off from Augsburg, Germany, and reached a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). (FAI Record File Number 10634) During this flight, Piccard was able to gather substantial data on the upper atmosphere, as well as measure cosmic rays