The Strato-Lab flights culminated in a record-setting flight on May 4, 1961, by Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieutenant Commander Victor Prather (United States Navy) to test the Navy's Mark IV full-pressure suit.
The current balloon flight record was set by Malcolm Ross (USNR) and Victor Prather (USN), who took the Strato-Lab V balloon to 34,668 m (113,740 ft) on May 4, 1961 above the Gulf of Mexico.
To control temperature, the gondola was protected by special venetian blinds, but otherwise open to space.
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He graduated from Tufts in 1945 and then attended Tufts University School of Medicine, graduating there in 1952.
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