Instapundit links to an Ed Driscoll post on the world's highest altitude parachute jump. This post also links to a nice resource called Spacecraft Films which is a definite bookmark.
Kittinger's jump has been noticed here and a very telling contrast apparent in the coverage given to this feat by Time magazine in 1960 compared to today's media atmosphere is noted with a link to the original news item.
It's almost as if in 1960 you could admire America and masculine fortitude!
"Journolists" and Hollywood have been struggling to correct that ever since...
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If it ain't HALO, it ain't shit!
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