On a clear morning in the early space age, the U.S. Air Force sent a single man to the edge of the atmosphere and told him to step off into the void. The man was Joseph Kittinger, a test pilot whose ...
(CNN) – One step, 128,100 feet, and millions of amazed gasps. In a moment that seems likely to live forever in the annals of derring-do, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner on Sunday rode a balloon ...
It led to Project Excelsior, where the United States Air Force would intentionally send an airman into the stratosphere to ...