This is an article written by Jacques Piccard for the National Geographic Magazine of the Bathyscaphe Trieste dive to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. “Do you think we shall be able to make the dive?” The voice of our…
The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) was founded on 2 June 1928 after a call by king Albert I of Belgium for more resources for scientific research. Among the earliest NFSR projects funded were the stratosphere flights of professor Auguste Piccard. The FNRS Stratospheric balloon that set…