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NASA Super-Tiger Balloon Shatters Flight Record

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The record-breaking balloon, carrying the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (Super-TIGER) experiment, has been afloat for 46 days and is on its third orbit around the South Pole.
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Breaking the Record and a visit to Cosray: January 20-21, 2013

On Sunday morning, Super-TIGER surpassed CREAM I's duration of 41 days, 21 hours and 31 minutes to become the longest Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon flight!
We're still about 1/3 of the way through our third time around the continent, so we'll certainly make the record a lot harder to beat in the coming days.
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