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5 People Who Actually Jumped From Space "All Copyrights owned by Felix Baumgartner, Red Bull Stratos & their respective owners." 5.Joseph Kittinger Joseph William Kittinger is a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force and a USAF Command Pilot. Following his initial operational assignment in fighter aircraft, he participated in Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior in 1960, setting a world record for the longest skydive from a height greater than 31 kilometres. He was also the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon. Joe Kittinger made history as he ascended to 102,800 feet in a high-altitude balloon and jumped to Earth, setting four world records. Of the jumps from Excelsior, Kittinger said: "There's no way you can visualize the speed. There's nothing you can see to see how fast you're going. You have no depth perception. If you're in a car driving down the road and you close your eyes, you have no idea what your speed is. It's the same thing if you're free falling from space. http://www.redbullstratos.com/the-team/joe-kittinger/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger 4. Eugene Andreev Eugene Andreev was a colonel in the Soviet Air Force. Andreyev set an official record for the longest-distance free-fall parachute jump on 1 November 1962, which the Guinness Book of Records put at 24,500 meters. On 1 November 1962, Eugene Andreev jumped from an altitude of 25,458 m over the Soviet city of Volsk. Opening his parachute at 958 m. He covered a record distance of 24,500 m in free-fall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Nikolayevich_Andreyev http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-freefall-parachute-jump-%28official-fai%29/ http://parachutehistory.com/skydive/records/highalt/index.html 3. Nick Piantanida Nicholas John Piantanida was an American amateur parachute jumper who reached 123,500 feet with his Strato Jump II balloon on February 2, 1966, flying a manned balloon higher than anyone before. Nick Piantanida, a truck driver from New Jersey with a dangerous appetite for high-risk adventure; but with little experience or training; cobbled together sponsorship money, wangled a space suit with the help of a U.S. senator and assembled a team of volunteers for an attempt at the world free-fall record. Strato Jump launched perfectly on May 1, 1966, climbing past 50,000 feet without any problems. Everyone was relaxed, excited even. This was going to work. And then, it didn’t. Ground control heard what was generally described as a "whoosh" of rushing air, a cut-off call over the radio and the deployment of an emergency parachute. When the ground crew found Piantanida 26 minutes later, he was barely conscious. When he arrived at the hospital, he had already lapsed into a coma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida http://heavy.com/sports/2015/07/nick-piantanida-angry-sky-espn-30-for-30-death-wife-janice-mcdowell-family-parachute/ 2. Felix Baumgartner Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without drogue, and vertical speed without drogue. Felix, born April 20, 1969, grew up in Salzburg, Austria where he dreamed of skydiving and flying helicopters and was inspired by astronauts on TV. He made his first skydive at the age of 16. Eager to test the limits, Felix set a record for history's lowest BASE jump from Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue, twice set world records for the highest BASE jump from Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei 101 tower, and even landed his canopy inside a cave in Croatia. He set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km, reaching an estimated speed of 1,357.64 km/h on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power relative to the surface on his descent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner http://www.redbullstratos.com/the-team/felix-baumgartner/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10610580/New-first-person-footage-of-Felix-Baumgartners-jump-from-space.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html?_r=0 1. Alan Eustace Robert Alan Eustace is an American computer scientist who served as Senior Vice President of Knowledge at Google. Since October 24, 2014, he holds the world record for the highest-altitude free-fall jump. He reached a reported maximum altitude of 135,908 feet. His descent to Earth lasted 15 minutes and stretched nearly 42 km with peak speeds exceeding 1,322.00 km/h, setting new world records for the highest free-fall jump, and total free-fall distance of 123,334 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html?_r=0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_diving