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The day the Air Force had a man jump from the edge of space
On a clear morning in the early space age, the U.S. Air Force sent a single man to the edge of the atmosphere and told him to step off into the void. The man was Joseph Kittinger, a test pilot whose ...
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, ...
How an Air Force captain’s intense training helped prepare for a 104-person, sky-diving world record
In late November, Air Force Capt. Charlene Sufficool was one of 104 skydivers who built the largest parachute canopy ...
It’s been 10 long years since Felix Baumgartner, clad in a pressurized spacesuit, rode a Red Bull Stratos capsule under a helium balloon to the edge of space, 127,852 feet above Earth, then jumped out ...
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