On 8/29/2006 - El Calafate, Argentina: Wearing NASA spacesuits and flying along the crest of the Andes, Steve Fossett (USA born 1944) and Einar Enevoldson (USA born 1932) took their 'Perlan' high performance glider on the world's first stratrospheric glider flight - to a height of 50,699 feet.