Originally Posted By: paul

so the balloon can be adjusted in size as it moves further upwards and gas can also be pumped in to give more lift as required.

Yes but I wonder about the weight of the tanks used to store the compressed gas. It might not add up.

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this way the platform could achieve a higher altitude than the 51 k ft record.

Huh? How does compressing the gas help altitude?



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this is space were talking about here , and the ISS
is not a U.S. only project.

Yes, so you don't need to be concerned with which country is doing things in space.