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Article: Fed: Another world record for Steve Fossett - because it's there
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2002
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Fed: Another world record for Steve Fossett - because it's there
By Joe Hildebrand
SYDNEY, July 4 AAP - The question is: "Why?" It's one Steve Fossett
can't really answer
except to say it's because he wants to and it makes him happy.
Oh yes, and because he can.
And what Steve Fossett can do is break records - more than 30 of
them so far, and counting.
On Tuesday night he broke another one - or another two to be precise
- when he travelled
the longest distance and spent the longest time underneath a helium-
filled balloon.
He also became the first person to travel solo around the world
in a balloon, the 10-storey
high "Spirit of ...