I Cdr. Malcolm Ross and LCdr. Victor Prather lift off Antietam enroute to a world record altitude of 21½ miles, set in May[removed]Below, Navy astronaut Charles Conrad, Jr., commander of Apollo 12, operates a lunar

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• Victor Prather
• Human spaceflight
• Navy Mark IV
• Ballooning
• Project Strato-Lab
• Malcolm Ross
• Space suit
• Balloon
• Project Mercury
• Spaceflight
• Apollo program
• Exploration of the Moon