Joe Kittinger Hits The Speed Of Sound Without A Vehicle

On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger was strapped into an specially modified U.S. Air Force balloon and set off on an ascent into the clouds. After 4 hours he reached the edge of space at a record breaking attitude of 102,800 feet (approx 20 miles above land). At that height he was basically in outerspace with very little atmosphere and an outside temperature at 100 degrees below zero.

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[61vyper]

So he jumped, landed in the ocean and started surfing?

[XxIMMORTALxKILLERxX]

i would of loved to see the look on his face if he had started to fly up!! lol

[CHiMPKiDD]

What the hell? How is the surfing at the end relevant to this?

[arazec343]

thats whats up

[Naterger]

@SoldierofTheFallen Then how do they have the footage off the baloon, if they couldn't retrieve it?

[digimaster88]

imagine him drifting off in space after jumping

[YOSKIE806]

@61vyper he had to get to the beech party somehow! strapping a surfboard to his back, spacediving to the middle of the ocean then catching a single wave and riding it all the way back to shore surrounded by musical dolphins was just the most entertaining way to do it.

[tquasa]

@darkangel767 He wasn't going fast enough to do that... he would have had to jump from a much higher elevation for that to happen

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

@darkangel767 He didn't reach a high enough speed. Returning spacecraft come in at over 25,000 mph.

[Mycophilliac]

This could only be done by Chuck Norris' father.

[SoldierofTheFallen]

@technojaja

They didn't, there is really no possible way that we could have retreaved that baloon back, considering the time era also that this event occured, they neither had the technology nor the money to make/spend on such an endeavor.

[technojaa]

how did they found the balloon ?