On this day in 2002 (3rd July), American businessman and adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a balloon (the Spirit of Freedom). This was his sixth attempt and he held records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance balloonist, a sailor and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
Fossett disappeared in September 2007 whilst flying over the GreatBasin Desert (between California and Nevada) and was legalled declared dead in the following year. Later in the same year the wreckage of the aircraft was found in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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