FNRS-1
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thumb|Auguste Piccard's FNRS-1 Gondolathumb|Professor Auguste Piccard (front right) with his family and engineer Kipfer in front of the capsule of the stratospheric balloon with which a flight will be made. The scientists are wearing helmets made from sewing baskets and pillows. The FNRS-1 was a balloon, built by Auguste Piccard, that set a world altitude record. It was named after the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, which funded the balloon.
==See also== National Fund for Scientific Research FNRS-2, which was the first ever bathyscaphe built. FNRS-3, which was rebuilt from FNRS-2
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