Fosset's Trying for Balloon Record Again

jcarley writes: "After crashing into the coral sea last time, adventurer Steve Fossett has launched from Western Australia on a another attempt at the first solo circumnavigation of the world in a balloon. These efforts seem highly prone to technical, weather or political disasters but so far it has been incident free. He has covered 1866km (1159 miles) so far and is in South Australia heading east. You can follow his progress." The site has quite a few cool images as well.