Free fall Colonel Joe Kittinger, the highest skydive record from space

[shredder154]

idk it just seems weird to think that the helium balloon is still floating in space somewhere

[itchyracer77]

Lunatic

[KrytakliAklaimd]

how did they get so many great shots of him falling???....kinda weird how they can get great shots of him falling from stationary cameras attached to the balloon

[playstaitionfreak101]

I wonder wat happened to the balloon

[NicSchumi]

Thanks for this great piece of history :-)

[gordoncouch]

I had the honor of flying with Colonel Kittinger in a open cockpit biplane in 1996. He is a true gentleman, a national treasure, and was quite the daredevil! Thanks for posting!

[zillyberk]

"at the altitude he jumped there was no air so there was no sound, no wind resistance, no friction so it felt like he was floating until he got to altitudes where there is air" My question is if there was no air at that altitude how did the balloon continue to lift him? I'm just curious. Was there no air or was it just not as dense as lower altitudes? Just curious.

[DANMAN12361]

i think it should say he has the biggest balls in the world

[OsanBlackCat5RS]

I could see this becoming a sport someday.

[PortVienna80]

Joe Kittinger-one brave dude!

[rockysjewel]

so cool and we are meeting him tomorrow !!! He's doing a book signing in Portland OR cant wait

[Postie218]

Colonel at the time of retirement, Captain when he made the jump. Joe Kittenger is an American treasure. He also flew in Viet Nam, was a POW, and has a list of medals as long as your arm including 6 DFC's.

[kurtkob78]

Im wondering, who was recording during the descent. Is there one more person jumping ?

[henryk8675309]

@kurtkob78 ummm I think it was other balloons that people were in. they just didn't jump

[azam3000]

0:02 doom guy clothes set

[Baumholder72]

Met him in '82 when he was speaking in Daytona Beach and first saw the USAF film of his jump over Holloman AFB. A very amazing guy who took it all in stride. Remember, he was also a POW in the Hanoi Hilton after being shot down during the Vietnam War. The country needs more guys like Joe. I've gotten out of an airplane at 21,000' and couldn't imagine the view that he saw.

[ChrisAlmighty14]

BADASS.

[Seena20]

when u fall from that high u feel like ur floating until you get to a place with oxygen

[JKthestud]

my fav. joe kittinger video by far...

remember....you can listen to this song 3.5 times....thats how long it took kittinger from jump to land :p

[iwillrocktheplace]

BEAAAASSSSSTTTTTT

[JKthestud]

I didn't even know about Joe Kittinger until a friend showed me this 3 weeks ago. I feel as if I was cheaated out of a great hero as a child. He is now one of my all time favorite people.

I'd like to propose Aug 16th as Joe Kittinger Day!!!

Please help me and send your congressman an email (or anyone and everyone) about Joe Kittinger....lets give the man his props!!!!

[MThead911]

3 people hate space

[oceanking18]

Is that comment correct? Did he reach over 600 mph on his jump? Not being a jumper or a pro at physics I thought the human body would only reach maybe half of that speed max but the altitude must have a lot for this and the pressures involved. Cool Stuff!

[dumbtreeclimber]

@oceanking18

You are correct. Pressure is involved here. At 100,000 ft, the atmosphere is so thin that it is known as being "Near Space". In the thin air, he was able to accelerate to 614 mph.

[nipzilla]

Without a doubt this is the best video I've ever watched on this truly epic jump!

I am a skydiver and Joe Kittinger and DB Cooper are my all time heroes :)

One jumped for the good of progress and one jumped for the good of himself but both skydivers have balls of steels regardless!

[vonillahead217]

Dank tune. Did alphaspin write this song just for Joe kittinger? It sure does sound like it. Anyone that badass definately needs a song wrote about them.

[GriederF]

This song is just fantastic.

[Rinde2010]

This dude has king kong balls...

[Redzyify]

Whooooooaw,,thts crazy..

[GrandMasterIsaac]

They should change the name of the video to Biggest Balls in the world!

[sdmagn]

Great song for this epic jump!

[gungasc]

he broke the sound barrier? ffs! he has the biggest balls do that shit!

[rhapsodist9]

@gungasc he didn't actually break the sound barrier... he went nine-tenths the speed of sound at his altitude, which on his jump reached 614mph... he ALMOST broke the sound barrier.

[akaPierce]

wouldnt falling htis far, this fast do something to your ears with the pressure changes?

[EquippedProductions]

i heard he accidently fell asleep because of the height and thats why he got soo high up..

[MrEriksen52]

It was cool, but why he jump?

[dante0829]

kratos??

[dante0829]

wat hapen if the chute dont open ^_^

[caboose250]

@dante0829 he will be dead lol

[135797524]

WOW!!!!!

[13bakerbabe]

in awe.

speechless.

recovered,

thank you for posting this!

[vidasurf]

Awesomee videoo!!

name song ??

[Blatate]

Thanks vidasurf. Song called Colonel Joe by a band called Alphaspin. Bit of a fan ;)

[Musketeers750]

@vidasurf uhh lets take a guess....Ive got to jump??

[rwalden2007]

This guy, Col Kittinger, was also a POW in North Vietnam toward the end of that war. An absolutely amazing career in the USAF.

[2ADB]

Fantastic free fall would be interesting to talk to the guy and get his reaction to falling that far

[mercurycid]

awesome

[mercurycid]

that's incredible, Awesome.

adrenalin junkies in the sixties too.

the colonel has set the standard high!

[KnockoffNigeI]

He's a ginger, of course who else would jump out of a tin basket at nearly six miles high?

[tekinak007]

Its funny how people pay out NASA, or the men and women involved in various other, high publicity / record breaking situations.

It boils down to one factor 99.9% of the time. There are extra-ordinary people out there, who have achieved so much in their lives, that to those who mean nothing to the world, and never want to mean anything... have to disbelieve what really happens around them so their lives down look like such a waste and expense on the planet.

Fk off all haters of NASA.

[josenelsonbeltran]

What is the name of that song I LOVE IT, (Grat video)

[richardfrazell]

Colonel Joe by Alphaspin

[cladiax1]

i whant to jump from an altatude that space shuttles orbit at but that is imposabule

[BarefootBASE]

It's also called a 'space walk' , very possible but you need a better 'kit' than Joe . But be careful , untethered it may be a space float away .

[lithiumdeuteride]

It's perfectly possible. If you had a full vacuum suit with a bit of thermal protection, and a parachute, you could survive a fall from that altitude.

However, if you had the shuttle's horizontal velocity (Mach 23+), you would burn up on re-entry.

[Rakemaan]

If you had the shuttle's horizontal velocity, at the shuttle's orbital height, i.e. you step out of its door, you won't fall at all. You'll orbit until you die and you'll continue to orbit for decades. You need thrust to fall back to earth.

[divinegod102]

You'll crumble to dust through the atmosphere during the jump so basically it's impossible.

[2ADB]

you have go to be kidding me how did you ever live so long being so stupid! Not only is it possible but actually sounds like a lot of fun a broken leg is your biggest worry aside from running out of oxygen on the trip up. I hate to say this but buddy you need to put down the crack pipe and get back to school maybe learn something

[kue197]

The man got closer to heaven than an ignorant with your attitude is every likely to. Does your god expect us to spend eternity cowering and scratching in the dirt, staying as stupid as possible? Or does he want us to strive to better understand his world and ourselves?Guess that counts people like you out of his plan...

[momeio]

@kue197 well said.

[spencnaz]

take a physics class.  stop smoking weed.

[anny920]

fuckin fake from nasa as usual

[demagxc]

i hate ignorant pricks like you

[austinson93]

fuck nasa did fake the space landing they edited so much of that footage

what he did was amazing though, i will still say

[panchamkauns]

If you think they faked the moon landing, why do you think this is amazing? Why don't you think this is fake as well?

[goingtoeatpizza]

@austinson93 get over it. The reason no one takes anyone seriously that says NASA faked the moon landing is simple

There was hundreds of thousands of independent employees and contractors working together on the moon landing

The communications were picked up by scientists in Australia via a dish specifically trained on the moon and relayed back to NASA

Conspiracies are one thing but believing a conspiracy of that size could possible stay under wraps this whole time is just plain stupid

[circlebread]

Wow, that's intense!

[Ihateyoutoube]

It wasn't from space as it wasn't even out of the stratosphere, space is usually thought to transition from atmosphere from 100 - 118 km above the Earth. It is gradual but nobody actually thinks it starts where he jumped (expect you lot).

[palmersmedic]

You'll notice when he's back on the ground and getting everything taken off him, he plugs his nose and blows. Can you imagine how much pressure was on his ears? I didn't even think what that kind of jump would do to your body.

[Reubenhubert]

Thank you for the video. Great song, too.

[TKTK00]

i must do that

it would be life changing

[maeggle21]

Ballsy indeed, but try this one out for a moment: Cpl. Pruitt (two medals of honor) single-handed attacked 2 machineguns, capturing them and killing 2 of the enemy. He then captured 40 prisoners in a dugout nearby. This gallant soldier was killed soon afterward by shellfire while he was sniping at the enemy.

Yes people back then had big balls... nowadays men are just a bunch of pussies with their pants below their hips... who listen to stupid shit

[Gforcebond]

very large testicles

[blimp99]

indeed! man make out the man testicles!...

[PHANTOMZ0NE]

It's so high up that you can actually see the curvature of the earth!

[dvdll]

holy crap... that must of been the sensation of a life time, that guy got some great courage =O

[DuluBai]

He fucking skydived from space ! crazy.

[ILuvTechnoMusic]

woulda been a bit shit if they miscalculated and he jumped and just floated away into space :)

[hunteran]

You can't escape the earth's gravitational field in a balloon. You need to reach escape velocity for that... Even if he was much higher than 100,000 feet he still would have been pulled back to earth by gravity.

[Ihateyoutoube]

That couldn't happen as if it did it would be a slap in the face of physics and everything we understand about the atmosphere. There is a whole other layer of atmosphere, the mesosphere before we get into the dark thin micro-gravity of the thermosphere. It is about 70 km higher then where he jumped from.

[caboose250]

he had balls of steel back then

[jorge10928]

This man has more balls than every other person on earth combined.

[kevdrummer28]

easy there, US Navy Seals may be able to compete

[1Deejay7]

@jorge10928 Thats a lot of balls

[Johnsonss25]

....Dayvan Cowboy

[BMuris]

Wow, first time I see the actual footage, balls of steel indeed.

Thanks for sharing

[tdo79]

Balls!

[elliott12591]

jealous

[Orfeus2009]

nice music U IDIOT

[Bobulator999]

what about the cameraman

[ganski72]

seven

[Decoyrulz]

Bals of steel....

[andrejpwalker]

That is simply terrifying!

[ourtoumpam]

this is amazing i want to do it..!!!

[ronan1986]

I hope he got some sort of medal for that!!! He must be fuckin crazy...

[fxt1dan]

That ain't no balloon.You do what your country tells you to do.

Since I read about this I always wanted to see it thanks!

[soylentgreenb]

"You do what your country tells you to do."

That's a recipe for all manner of attrocities and authoritarianism. Keep your brain switched on; don't just be a mindless drone.

[johnsmdm]

sirs, I'm currently working on a prototype balloon that will get me to the Lunar surface..are there any regulations that you know of sir, thankyou..

[Meni69]

biggest set of brass balls ever

[boatlooker]

nice jump

[livelaughliveagain]

That was AMAIZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

I can't imagine doing anything like that, although it would be so cool to sky dive!!!!!!

[toberses11]

he didn't jump from spae he jumped from high in the stratesphere and he said that it was like hovering because his body didn't know he was falling bescuse he was so high up

[dumbtreeclimber]

toberses11: It was as if he jumped from space because the air was almost 100 times thinner at his altitude. He was in near-vacuum conditions above 80k feet. That's why he couldn't tell if he was falling. He was weightless, because he was in free fall, but he couldn't feel the rippling of his suit because of the incredibly thin air. That's why he felt like he was floating. Height had little to do with it, even though he had no visual reference.

[dgriffiths1983]

Could you imagine that??? You would be like FUUUUUCK i went too far!!! lol I wanna break the record! bad! But it wont happen!

[joshthewelshlad]

This guys has some balls todo that he is one of the greatest men that wil ever live LENGEND

[Wowbagger86]

What song is this? :)

[TheMoistPanties]

At 3:19 you get a brief glance of the balloon above him as he rolls through the air, it is in complete blackness. What a badass, that must have been quite a sight, blackness all around and the earth 100,00 ft below. I dont know how someone has the courage to jump from there.

[Wowbagger86]

Imagine if he jumped and nothing happened! Or if the balloon pulled him to far. imagine if he didn't get back!

[redletterchurch]

Wowbagger86: Ya...what if he went up instead of down because he was too high?!!

[Peter9230]

he´s lucky not to land i the onean

[9177124]

imagine what was going through his mind while they suited him up....the nerves involved in climbing to 13,000 ft to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, NOTHING compared to this man's resolve! bravo!

[inthemix00]

holy shit :O

[4120Wade]

Wow. Almost half a century later and this is STILL the world record. Somebody failed to break it just last week (his balloon broke loose). As Kittinger, now very old, says: "If it was easy to do, somebody would have broken it already." In the footage, he looks pretty blown out after his mighty fall.

[Riggro]

his hands are blue!

[psychpop]

Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled to twice its normal size.

[kevjones93]

4:22

his hand looks normal size to me

[janvantonder]

Amazing, surreal! Imagine sky diving down to Earth from the edge of the atmosphere. Wow!

[EbonyScholar]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ohmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyGod! Say he did not jump out of a perfectly good baloon uhm 20 miles up!

[jozeto]

what is the song's name

[craigypoopoo3000]

Colonel Joe by Alphaspin

[pirx2]

Brave man and nice song, too! :-)

[HaldonSpeedy]

This man is a hero. End of!!

[rayonius]

1960? wrong