The Man Who Jumped from Space
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. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast ADVERTISE…
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