In 1960, as a part of Project Excelsior, United States Air Force test pilot Colonel Joseph Kittinger rose 102,800 feet in a balloon, into the stratosphere. He jumped back to the ground, falling ...
In the 1950s and '60s, Captain Joseph Kittinger was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force's high altitude balloon experiments. In 2015, Col. Kittinger sat down with American Experience to discuss his ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Retired Air Force Col. Joseph Kittinger, whose 1960 parachute jump from almost 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the Earth stood as a world record for more than 50 years, ...
In 1960, Joseph Kittinger's daring leap from 102,800 feet above Earth setting records that remained unbroken for decades. Skydiver Felix Baumgartner plans to break it on October 9, 2012, live ...
MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash ...
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