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Take Two

California balloon circles the world in 12 days

By Take Two Staff
Published Feb 9, 2015
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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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Scientists in San Jose, California, launched a 6-foot wide balloon two weeks ago, carefully constructed out of a plastic-type material.

Since then it successfully circumnavigated the globe in just 12 days and...it's still going.

Ron Meadows from the California Near Space Project tells Alex Cohen his team never expected this kind of success.

Check the progress of the balloon