GENEVA — Jacques Piccard, a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man, died Saturday, his son's company said. He was 86. Piccard died at his Lake Geneva ...

EXCLUSIVE: In 1991 a Swiss explorer and a British flying instructor attempted to do what had never been accomplished before: fly around the world nonstop in a balloon. They not only faced enormous ...

It was my first solo flight: riding a Japanese paper bag across the frozen skies of the Twin Cities in 1947. But as paper bags go, this one was exceptional. In its prior service, the carefully crafted ...

Guillaume Faury (CEO Airbus), Julie Kitcher (Chair of the Airbus Foundation) and Bertrand Piccard (Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation) – © Airbus SAS 2025 ...

(WHTM) — It sounds like the title of a Jules Verne novel from the 19th century, but it’s been described as the last great adventure of the 20th century-and it used a balloon design from the 18th ...

March 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1413, Henry V was crowned king of England. In 1617, Pocahontas died in England at about age 22. Three years earlier, she converted to Christianity, took ...

In 1999, the Swiss psychiatrist and aviator Bertrand Piccard, along with his friend and British pilot Brian Jones, completed the first non-stop balloon flight around the globe. Later in 2016, he ...

Is it possible to make aviation greener? Global explorer Bertrand Piccard has no doubt. With his project Climate Impulse, he’s aiming to complete the first non-stop flight around the world on a green ...

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