Joe Kittinger: Supersonic Parachutist!

Posted By on Oct 29, 2011

Ever heard of Joe Kittinger? Neither had I, until I received an email describing his awesome high altitude parachute jump back in the 1960s. Rather than retell this story, here is the email (author unknown). You can read more about Joe on Wikipedia. Joe Kittinger is not a household aviation name like Neil Armstrong or Chuck Yeager. But what he did for the US space program is comparable. On Aug. 16, 1960, as research for the...

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