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the real first man in space - Joseph KittingerFirst Faved : Apr 10 2008 by gravitymaxFaved : 1 time with noteViewed : 16 timesFave It!

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  • gravitymax - Apr 10 2008 | history, video, awesomeness

    in 1960, joseph kittinger jumped from the edge of space.

    from 31,330 miles above sea-level, kittinger free fell for almost 5 minutes, reaching the speed of 614 mph (that's < > close to hitting sound barrier), before opening his chute for safe landing.

    btw, he's also mccain's pow buddy. for rills. this guys rulez. so is the video.

    • shadowpuppetmaster - Apr 10 2008

      HArd
      freakin
      CORE!

      13 min descent on the last one....31 km above the desert floor!
      dude, the guy freaking jumped out of outer space onto earth!! holy cow!
      amazing!

    • misaacs - Apr 10 2008

      Cool video. Must have been quite a guy.

      A Frenchman(who is now 62) has been chasing Kittinger's record for a while now-
      http://www.legrandsaut.org/index.php?Message=projet&lang=eng

      He'll be trying again next month.

    • textured - Apr 14 2008

      ekkssss!
      sellllllll!
      seeeeeee!
      oooooorrrrrrrrr?

    • textured - Apr 14 2008

      wtf 47 years later and no one else has done this again? it should be done just to get a hi-def video of the entire thing. you know.. like. for drukqs.

      not exactly jumping from outerspace though. lol thatd be impossible.

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