He may not have achieved his ambition of proving that the earth is flat, but he did make a valuable discovery for the Earth is Made Out Of Marshmallow Society (EMOOMS).
Will not get high enough to see the curvature of the earth.
A balloon will get high enough to see it but even those videos of some people who put their iPhone or GoPro on a balloon and said it went to to space are wrong it was not space at that height.
"At an altitude of 10 km (6.2 mi; 33,000 ft), the cruising altitude of a typical airliner, the mathematical curvature of the horizon is about 0.056, the same curvature of the rim of circle with a radius of 10 m that is viewed from 56 cm directly above the center of the circle."
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