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Old 03-15-2012, 11:37 PM  
mikesouth
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I met joe Kittenger compliments of a friend of mine at Wright Pat (The airforce museum has an exihibit dedicated to joe) He is a bit, shall we say portly these days, but a nice guy and talk about balls...he did it when the technology didn't exist to really insure he didn't burn up, or freeze to death.

FYI he is still quiet on it but word is he is the only human to ever achieve mach 1 without being in a vehicle of some sort.
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