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MSC 70-103
The payload was recovered from Canada by NASA_ Winzen and NCAR
scientists and taken to the University of California_ Berkley_ where
preliminary analysis is being conducted under the supervision of
U of C Professor Berford Price_ coinvestigator. It will be another
90 days before detailed analysis is completed.
Dr. Zack Osborne_ MSC co-investigator_ said "Although the payload
hit hard_ preliminary e×_nination of the detectors indicates
we were very lucky."
The balloon and its payload drifted west for several days after
launch and then crossed over the Pacific Ocean where it drifted west
for about 750 miles. Westerly winds then caught the package and
returned it to the stat_s.
It crossed into Caaada sometime Friday night and crashed into
a series of power lines the following morning where the balloon was
separated from the paylaad. The ba£1oon_ still containing a portion
of its 20.8 million cubic feet of helium_ drifted eastward and fell
to a point near Brandon_ Canada -- about 100 miles north of Winnipeg.