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==References== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs= <ref name="DeVorkin1991">{{Citation | first1 = David | last1 = DeVorkin | editor1-first = Sallie | editor1-last = Baliunas | editor2-first = John L. | editor2-last = Richard | title = Robotic Observatories: Present and Future. Proceedings of the 1990 11th Annual Smithsonian/Fairborn/I.A.P.P.P Symposium on Automatic Photoelectric Telescopes | chapter = Social Determinism in Space: Depression Era Apollo | publisher = Fairborn Press | pages = 3β9 | year = 1991 | isbn = 3642297188 | location = Mesa, Arizona | url = http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/HistoryOfComputerizedTelescopes/Baliunas.1991.Robotic.Observatories.1.pdf | accessdate= 2013-04-20 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Weightman1937">{{Citation | first1 = R. Hanson | last1 = Weightman | title = Some results of the stratosphere flight of explorer II in America | journal = Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | volume = 63 | issue = 268 | pages = 75β78 |date=January 1937 | doi = 10.1002/qj.49706326813 | bibcode = 1937QJRMS..63...75W | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Maurer1987">{{Citation | first1 = Maurer | last1 = Maurer | title = Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939 | publisher = DIANE Publishing | volume = 63 | issue = 268 | pages = 424β425 | year = 1987 | location = Washington, D.C. | isbn = 142891563X | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=E1gGW_TqLawC&pg=PA424 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Potter2010">{{Citation | first1 = Sean | last1 = Potter | title = Retrospect: November 11, 1935: Explorer II Stratospheric Balloon Flight | work = Weatherwise Magazine | publisher = Taylor & Francis Group |date=December 2010 | url = http://www.weatherwise.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2010/November-December%202010/retrospective-full.html | accessdate= 2013-04-20 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Shayler2000">{{Citation | last1 = Shayler | first1 = David | title = Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight | publisher = Springer | page = 22 | year = 2000 | isbn = 1852332255 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ng9i5IMtlpsC&pg=PA22 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Ryan2003">{{Citation | last1 = Ryan | first1 = Craig | title = The Pre-astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space | publisher = Naval Institute Press | pages = 51β61 | year = 2003 | isbn = 1591147484 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1QS38bu9iTwC&pg=PA51 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Davis2008">{{Citation | editor1-first = Jeffrey R. | editor1-last = Davis | editor2-first = Robert | editor2-last = Johnson | editor3-first = Jan | editor3-last = Stepanek | title = Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine | publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | page = 17 | edition = 4th | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0781774666 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_6hymYAgC6MC&pg=PA17 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="NYT19351212">{{Citation | title = Honored on Flight into Stratosphere | work = The New York Times | date = December 12, 1935 | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10715FE3F5B1B7B93C0A81789D95F418385F9 | accessdate= 2013-04-21 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="FWP2008">{{Citation | author1 = The Federal Writers' Project | title = The WPA Guide to South Dakota | publisher = Minnesota Historical Society | page = 295 | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0873517102 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lqnYmaR2iRcC&pg=PA295 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Bilstein2001">{{Citation | last1 = Bilstein | first1 = Roger E. | title = Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts | publisher = JHU Press | page = 118 | edition = 3rd | year = 2001 | isbn = 0801866855 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PKeVjYtzLr0C&pg=PA118 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="SI">{{Citation | title = Cabin, "EXPLORER II" | work = National Air and Space Museum | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | url = https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/cabin-explorer-ii/nasm_A19370060000 | accessdate= 2021-03-21 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Fredriksen2011">{{Citation | first1 = John C. | last1 = Fredriksen | title = The United States Air Force: A Chronology | publisher = ABC-CLIO | page = 50 | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0873517102 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Br3zsp8pvGYC&pg=PA50 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name="Froes2006">{{Citation | first1 = Francis H. | title = Magnesium Technology: Metallurgy, Design Data, Automotive Applications | last1 = Froes | first2 = Dan | last2 = Eliezer | first3 = Eli | last3 = Aghion | editor1-first = Horst E. | editor1-last = Friedrich | editor2-first = Barry L. | editor2-last = Mordike | chapter = Magnesium Aerospace | publisher = Springer | page = 608 | year = 2006 | isbn = 3540308121 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2z4UrFgJ2mkC&pg=PA608 | postscript= . }}</ref> <ref name=Gannon_2010>{{citation | postscript=. | title=Explorer II Balloon Bookmark | first=Charles | last=Gannon | date=March 14, 2010 | work=National Geographic Collectors Corner | url=https://ngscollectors.ning.com/forum/topics/explorer-ii-balloon-bookmark | access-date=2025-03-20 }}</ref> }}
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