Joe Kittinger holds the record for the highest parachute jump*. In 1960 he ascended to 103,800 feet under a balloon before jumping, in the process also setting the record for highest balloon ascent. I was watching a documentary that mentioned this, and highlighted a factoid that hadn’t occurred to me before. Kittinger was so high [...]
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