Faxes From the Far Side
by Alan Bellows from Damn Interesting on (#1FJ7N)
On the 10th of January 1956-about a decade into the Cold War and about a year into the Space Race-the United States Air Force launched the first vehicle in its top secret Genetrix program. The vehicle was a balloon-an enormous, 200-foot-tall, 100-foot-wide helium balloon-the first of hundreds that the US would ultimately launch from sites ["]