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  Pair hope to take balloon to new heights
Updated 01 September 2003, 14.53
 The balloon will go extremely high
Two British men are hoping to fly a balloon higher than anyone else has ever done before on Tuesday.

Andy Elson, 48, and Colin Prescot, 53, are hoping to take their balloon as high as 25 miles above the earth - more than three times higher than a plane flies.

Click here for loads more about the record attempt from BBC News Online

Their balloon is massive - at 387 metres tall it is as big as the Empire State Building in New York.

Andy Elson and Colin Prescot hope to break the record
Andy Elson and Colin Prescot hope to break the record
The balloon is getting ready to take off between 6am and 8am on Tuesday, and the attempt should take around nine hours.

Amazingly British Airways have even agreed to send a Concorde flight on a different route during the record attempt.

The current record was set back in 1961 by two American navy officers, who launched from a ship in the Gulf of Mexico.

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