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In the thin, freezing edge of Earth's atmosphere, long before private spaceflight captured headlines, one man stepped out of a balloon gondola and fell toward the planet below. Joseph Kittinger, a U.S. Air Force test pilot, made history in 1960 during Project Excelsior when he performed a daring high-altitude parachute jump from over 100,000 feet—pushing the limits of human endurance and aerospace science.
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In the thin, freezing edge of Earth's atmosphere, long before private spaceflight captured headlines, one man stepped out of a balloon gondola and fell toward the planet below. Joseph Kittinger, a U.S. Air Force test pilot, made history in 1960 during Project Excelsior when he performed a daring high-altitude parachute jump from over 100,000 feet—pushing the limits of human endurance and aerospace science.
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SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast
ADVERTISE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/advertise
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SPONSORED BY: https://www.podcastrepublic.net/get-it-now

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