Implementation Of The Plan
As a result, it appeared that it was at long last time for Walters to put his plan into motion and get started on their journey into space. Now that he and Van Deusen had all of the components they required, it was time to launch themselves into the atmosphere.
And so, on July 2, 1982, they attached the balloons to a lawn chair and got it all set up so that Walters could sit in it. They only needed to add a few items to this single-pilot plane before it was ready for takeoff and they would have had everything they needed to return safely to earth.