First flight into stratosphere by balloon

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27 May, 1931

The first flight into the stratosphere by balloon was made by Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer on the 27th of May 1931. They took off from Augsburg, Germany, and reached a record altitude of 15,781 m.