Abstract
On August 16, 1960, at 7:12 a.m., United States Air Force Captain Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. looked out from his balloon gondola at a height of over 19 miles and… jumped. Kittinger’s altitude and free-fall speed record lasted until Felix Baumgartner’s jump from a height of nearly 24 miles on Oct. 14, 2012. Baumgartner broke several records, including for vertical speed, where he was the first human to break the sound barrier without assisted power.
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