Balloon Museum exhibit commemorates historic flight

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It was July 11, 1897, when three pioneers set out on the journey to be the first trip to the North Pole via balloon. S.A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel were the three men on board the balloon for the historic flight. Other attempts had been made, but all were unsuccessful.
The Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum is commemorating that flight with an exhibit at the museum. That particular exhibit, Arctic Air: