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Fossett Sets Flight Distance Record
by Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 12, 2006; Page A18

The flight, which began at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 7:22 a.m. (Eastern time) Wednesday, lasted 76 hours and 45 minutes and covered 26,389.3 miles, the GlobalFlyer Web site said, more than 1,000 miles farther than the flight of the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3 in 1999.

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also from their website:

Help us fight childhood blindness
Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer: Charity

Over half a million children go blind each year - yet the medical and scientific knowledge to prevent and cure most cases of childhood blindness already exists.  But the skills and technology are concentrated in the richer countries whilst the need is concentrated in the poorer ones.