Posted on 04/25/2014 7:39:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Col. Joe Kittinger may be one of the most interesting people alive today.
Not only did he set the record for the highest and longest skydive in history in 1960, but the 85-year-old retired Air Force colonel was also the first person ever to observe the curvature of the Earth from the edge of outer space, and the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a helium balloon.
Kittinger sat down with Politics Confidential to discuss his lifes many adventures and what it was like to help break his own skydiving record in 2012 as part of the Red Bull Stratos project, during which he served as a mentor and capsule communicator to the current highest skydive record holder, Austrian Felix Baumgartner.
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