Steve Fossett, in full James Stephen Fossett, (born April 22, 1944, Jackson, Tennessee, U.S. disappeared September 3, 2007, western Nevada), American businessman and adventurer who set a number of world records, most notably in aviation and sailing. In 2002 he became the first balloonist to circumnavigate the world alone, and in 2005 he completed the first nonstop solo global flight in an airplane. Fossett grew up in California, where he studied economics and philosophy at Stanford University, Palo Alto (B.A., 1966). After earning an M.B.A. (1968) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, he became a successful commodities broker, and in
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