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Input: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An international team has launched its helium-filled balloon from Japan in a bid to reach North America and break two major records en route. 
  
 Pilots Troy Bradley of New Mexico and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia set off from Saga, Japan, shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sunday Japan time. 
  
 "Everything went just like a textbook," said Letitia Hill, social media director for the team's mission control in Albuquerque. 
  
 Unfavorable weather changes scuttled two previous launch attempts more than a week ago. 
  
 The pilots are looking to reach North America, an attempt that will put them on course to break a distance record of 5,208 miles. They also want to break the flight-duration record set in 1978 when Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman made the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight. That record of 137 hours in the air in a traditional gas balloon is considered the holy grail of ballooning achievements. 
  
 The team is expected to land in the next 5 ½ days, Hill said. But where they will land is anyone's guess. 
  
 "That's going to keep us on the edge of our seats for this mission," Hill said after watching the launch at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. 
  
 Bradley and Tiukhtyaev's balloon — dubbed Two Eagles — is outfitted with a high-tech navigation system, basic necessities such as a first-aid kit, and equipment to communicate with the command center. 
  
 It will fly at an altitude of at least 15,000 feet. The pilots will have oxygen masks and will be bundled up. The temperature inside their capsule will be about 50 degrees. 
  
 The pilots have to be physically fit to endure several days inside the capsule, with little sleep and limited oxygen. In addition to the record attempts, the flight is being monitored by researchers at Arizona State University who are studying the effects of fatigue on cognitive ability. 
  
 It's possible the pilots could be aloft for 10 days, which is the outer limit of the balloon's capabilities, the team said. 
  
 Once the hatch is closed and the pilots are inside, it's much like a video game, monitoring the GPS and other systems for updates on weather conditions, speed and altitude, Bradley told The Associated Press in October. ||||| .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 
  
 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After experiencing delays earlier this month, an international team aiming to break two major ballooning records finally launched a helium-filled balloon Sunday. 
  
 Pilots Troy Bradley, 50, of Albuquerque, and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev, 58, set off from Saga, Japan, shortly before 6:30 a.m. local time (just before 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Albuquerque). 
  
 “Everything went just like a textbook,” said Letitia Hill, social media director for the team’s Mission Control in Albuquerque. 
  
 Unfavorable weather changes scuttled two previous launch attempts more than a week ago. 
  
 The pilots are looking to reach North America, an attempt that will put them on course to break a distance record of 5,208 miles. 
  
 The record was set by Albuquerqueans Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman and Ron Clark, and Japanese-born American restaurateur Rocky Aoki, who launched from Nagashima, Japan, in November 1981 and landed in California’s Mendocino National Forest. 
  
 They also want to break the flight-duration record set in 1978 when Abruzzo, Newman and Maxie Anderson made the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight. That record of 137 hours in the air in a traditional gas balloon is considered the Holy Grail of ballooning achievements. 
  
 The team is expected to reach the West Coast in 5 ½ days, and they can continue inland for a couple days after. 
  
 But where they will land is anyone’s guess. 
  
 “That’s going to keep us on the edge of our seats for this mission,” Hill said after watching the launch at the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. 
  
 Mission Control is a small room in the Balloon Museum. The control room will be staffed day and night until the balloon lands. 
  
 The team, which includes balloonists, a meteorologist, a physician and a search-and-rescue expert, uses satellite phones to talk to the pilots, and there are also several different types of radios inside the aircraft. 
  
 “On any flight of this nature,” Bradley said at a news conference in October, “there is always the possibility of things going wrong. We have to have a team tracking us.” 
  
 Bradley and Tiukhtyaev’s balloon – dubbed Two Eagles – is outfitted with a high-tech navigation system, basic necessities such as a first-aid kit, and communications equipment. It is 140 tall, 90 feet wide and filled with 350,000 cubic feet of gas. 
  
 It will fly at an altitude of at least 15,000 feet. The pilots will have oxygen masks and will be bundled up. The temperature inside their capsule will be about 50 degrees. 
  
 The balloon was flying over Japan at 19,000 feet Saturday evening. In just under four hours, the balloon had traveled about 120 miles, according to the team’s website. 
  
 The pilots have to be physically fit to endure several days inside the capsule, with little sleep and limited oxygen. In addition to the record attempts, the flight is being monitored by researchers at Arizona State University who are studying the effects of fatigue on cognitive ability. 
  
 Track the balloon 
  
 The Two Eagles website, The Two Eagles website, twoeaglesballoonteam.com , includes live tracking of the balloon’s position and regular updates from Mission Control. 
  
 It’s possible the pilots could be aloft for 10 days, which is the outer limit of the balloon’s capabilities, the team said. 
  
 Once the hatch is closed and the pilots are inside, it’s much like a video game, monitoring the GPS and other systems for updates on weather conditions, speed and altitude, Bradley told The Associated Press in October. 
  
 Bradley and his wife, Tami, live in Albuquerque and have two children. Bradley regularly flies hot-air balloons in the Duke City and owns and operates a hot-air balloon company. He has set records before in gas, hot-air and gas and hot-air combination Roziére balloons. |||||
Output:
Riding in a 140-foot tall balloon filled with 350,000 cubic feet of gas, an American and a Russian have set off from Japan in the hopes of setting two balloon ride records at once. First, Troy Bradley, 50, and Leonid Tiukhtyaev, 58, hope to reach North America and break the current distance record of 5,208 miles, which was set between Japan and the US in 1981. And second, they hope to reach the West Coast in 5.5 days and then head inland another day or two, breaking the duration record of 137 hours (5.7 days) set in 1978, reports the AP. "Everything went just like a textbook," said team social media director Letitia Hill just after takeoff early yesterday. (Bad weather delayed two previous attempts earlier this month.) Mission Control, situated in a small room at a balloon museum in Albuquerque, includes balloonists, a meteorologist, a physician, and a search-and-rescue expert, who are staying in touch with the pilots via satellite phones, reports the Albuquerque Journal. The balloon, called Two Eagles, is equipped with several types of radios, a high-tech navigation system, and basics like food and a first-aid kit. The men will wear oxygen masks and stay bundled up in the 50-degree cabin as they fly at an expected altitude of at least 15,000 feet. It's possible the pilots could be in flight for as many as 10 days, the balloon's apparent outer limits, and it's not clear where they'll come down. "That’s going to keep us on the edge of our seats for this mission," says Hill. Bradley and Tiukhtyaev are also being monitored by Arizona State University researchers studying fatigue's effects on cognition. (Check out this recent balloon ride that didn't go as planned.)