MASON ANDERSON-SWEET
This Was the First Man in Space—and Then He Jumped: A Q+A With Joe Kittinger
_Before he would end up in a Vietnamese prison camp, Joe Kittinger ascended 20 miles above the Earth by balloon, a year before the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, "would get to space":http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/12/first-orbit-the-mind-expanding...
THIS GUY JUMPED OUT OF A BALLOON AT 102,800 FEET
To boldly jump out of a big balloon higher than any man has jumped out of a big balloon before.
MY BUDDY THE ISRAELI PARATROOPER
There was this guy, Ron, at my university. He was one of those quiet older guys who worked campus patrol and spent a lot of time getting drunk in the campus bar. He was a pudgy lackadaisical fellow with glasses, stubble, a beer belly, flip flops, and...
