[chimera]

I hope he makes it. This was done back in the fifties in Project Manhigh. Joseph Kittinger jumped from over 100,000 feet and that is still the record. The danger then was going into a flat spin and losing consciousness. Kittinger had to deploy a stabilizing drogue to eliminate the threat of the spin. I don't know if he exceeded Mach 1 or not.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Our first dude in space. I remember reading his account of the jump. He said when he left the capsule he was terrified - because he thought the science guys screwed up their calculations. He didn’t think he was falling - he was so high up he didn’t see the earth rushing toward him. He thought he was going to float there forever. Then he looked up, and saw the capsule racing away into a little dot of nothing, so he knew he was okay. At least so far.