Woman of the week Wednesday with Jeannette Piccard 💫
Jeannette was the high-altitude balloonist who became the first woman to ever reach the Earth's stratosphere! With her 10.9 mile high altitude balloon flight in 1934, Piccard became the world record holder for the highest altitude reached by a woman. She held this record for almost thirty years until Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth in Vostok in 1963.
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