Albert William Stevens

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Albert William Stevens (born March 13 1886 in Belfast, Maine^{[citation needed]}, United States - died March 26 1949 in Redwood City, California) was an US Army officer, balloonist and aerial photographer. He took the first photograph of the Earth in a way that the horizon's curvature is visible in 1930 and the first photograph of the Moon's shadow projected onto the Earth during a solar eclipse in 1932.

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• Record Balloon Flights - The Race to the Stratosphere
• The Explorer I crew - Major William Kepner, Captain Albert Stevens, and Captain Orvil Anderson, on July 28, 1934