# Parachuting from 23 miles up.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parachuting-from-23-miles-up/636872>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 6, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parachuting-from-23-miles-up/636872 "2012-10-06T02:35:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parachuting-from-23-miles-up/636872/181 "2022-10-15T20:44:48Z")

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Well, he didn’t break Baumgartner’s freefall speed record, which in my mind is a bigger achievement than the length of freefall, drogues and all.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parachuting-from-23-miles-up/636872/182 "2022-10-15T23:07:16Z")

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Joseph Kittinger is still with us, at age 94.

> **[Joseph Kittinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger)**
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> Joseph William Kittinger II (July 27, 1928 – December 9, 2022) served as a United States Air Force (USAF) officer from 1950 to 1978. He was a fighter pilot who earned Command Pilot status and retired as a colonel. He held the world record for the highest skydive—102,800 feet (31.3 km)—from 1960 until 2012.
> He participated in the Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior high-altitude balloon flight projects from 1956 to 1960 and was the first man to fully witness the curvature of the Earth. 
> A f...

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