Loyola Phoenix: "'Global sports adventure' challenges Loyolans"
Item
Title
Loyola Phoenix: "'Global sports adventure' challenges Loyolans"
Description
This article details the involvement of Loyolans with the Solo Spirit Balloon Project, an attempt by Steve Fossett to become the first person to balloon unassisted around the world. As Water Tower Campus served as Mission Control for the project, Loyolans were closely involved with every step of Fossett's journey. Staff, students, and alumni assisted Fossett with project logistics, most challenging of which was obtaining permissions for him to fly over certain countries, and also provided media updates and ran a website providing information on Fossett's flight. The web page registered more than 60,000 daily views during the flight, far outstripping the 2,000 daily views that Loyola's main home page normally got.
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
1997-01-22
File name
Loyola Phoenix 1997, January 22, page 3
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
University Archives and Special Collections
Source
Loyola University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix 1997, January 22, page 3
Subject
Loyola University Chicago
Solo Spirit Balloon Project
Steve Fossett
Rights
Contact the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections, archive@luc.edu, for permission to copy or publish.
