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  1. Re:It's Been Done by maetenloch · · Score: 1 · on Skydiving from 25 Miles Up

    You're referring to the Project Manhigh program run by the Air Force back in the late fifties. In 1960 Captain Joseph Kittinger jumped from a balloon at 102,800 feet. During the fall he actually exceeded the speed of sound (estimated speed 714 mph). Later he was shot down in Vietnam and spent a year in solitary confinement. There was a good article on Manhigh a couple of years back in National Geographic with some amazing pictures taken automatically as he jumped from the gondola. Unfortunately the only one I could find on the web is this one.

  2. kittinger - The longest leap by Paul+Jakma · · Score: 5, Informative · on Skydiving from 25 Miles Up
    US Air Force Captain Kittinger made the previous world record jump in 1960 from 19 miles up. There's an archive of the Life story on it at:


    http://www2.tsixroads.com/Corinth_MLSANDY/jk004. ht ml

    including an amazing shot of him taken from the gondola from which he jumped:


    http://www2.tsixroads.com/Corinth_MLSANDY/corint h_ images/jk20.jpg

  3. kittinger - The longest leap by Paul+Jakma · · Score: 5, Informative · on Skydiving from 25 Miles Up
    US Air Force Captain Kittinger made the previous world record jump in 1960 from 19 miles up. There's an archive of the Life story on it at:


    http://www2.tsixroads.com/Corinth_MLSANDY/jk004. ht ml

    including an amazing shot of him taken from the gondola from which he jumped:


    http://www2.tsixroads.com/Corinth_MLSANDY/corint h_ images/jk20.jpg

  4. 132,000ft and then what? by psych031337 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ballooning into Space

    This does not really strike me as a major aeronautical achievement.

    Col. Kittinger did a 102,800ft rise in a balloon back in the early 60s (Project "Man high"). The thing that makes this ballon trip unforgettable to history (at least for me and at least until somebody pushes the limit) is the fact that he opened up the gondola he was hanging in to throw himself out into the hands of gravity for 18 1/2 miles.

    You can read up on it here and here

  5. not really by Kraft · · Score: 1 · on Stratospheric Skydiving

    "Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude."
    (Kittinger (the diver) in Life magazine, August 29, 1960).

    -Kraft
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  6. Joe Kittinger been there, did that by Kraft · · Score: 4 · on Stratospheric Skydiving

    US Captain Kittinger did this in 1960 (as mentioned in the feedmag article), and although he didn't go faster than sound back then, and wasn't dropped from as high an altitude, it's still a feat keeping in mind. Kittinger himself wrote a detailed article in Life magazine about the jump.

    -Kraft
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  7. This has been done by Looke · · Score: 2 · on Space Diving

    In 1960, Joe Kittinger went up in a helium balloon. This man is sometimes regarded as the first man in space, although he just went 20 miles up (outside the atmosphere, anyway).

    A recent BBC documentary showed a film from this event, as the guy was smart enough to bring a film camera ;-)

    Read more at http://fy.chalmers.se/~f3aamp/teaching/np/balloon. html and http://www2.tsixroads.com/corinth/jk016.html.