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"Explorer II" Gondola
Ball shape cabin painted black and white "National Geographic Society and U.S. Army Air Corps" on side.. Exterior accessories include canvas ballast bags, intrument parachute bags, main parachute, battery boxes, wicker spectrograph basket.
- Type
- CRAFT-Balloon
- Medium
- Cabin: Painted magnesium alloy
- Department
- NASM
- Institution
- National Air and Space Museum
- Object number
- nasm_A19370060000
- Credit
- Gift of the National Geographic Society
