Hitting The Speed of Sound Without A Vehicle! (vid)
 

On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger was strapped into an specially modified U.S. Air Force balloon and set off on an ascent into the clouds. After 4 hours he reached the edge of space at a record breaking attitude of 102,800 feet (approx 20 miles above land). At that height he was basically in outerspace with very little atmosphere and an outside temperature at -94 degres below zero.

Then Joe did something that showed he had the biggest balls on the planet....he jumped out.

Joe was in freefall for over 4 minutes and hit a top speed of 700 miles per hour.
This guy is actually the first man in space. The motherfucking grand daddy of skydiving. Heres the link to the vid:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...yable% 3Atrue

Yeha I read about that before. His glove came off and fucked up his hand. he wasn't the first guy to attempt that though. He was the first guy to LIVE.

wtf?

he didn't know what was about to happen

he could have get killed easily

That's pretty heavy.

....wtf???

Thats amazing!! Never thought anyone could live through speeds like that.

he must have balls of steel

probably scottish

Damn, read the guy's Bio. He certainly wasn't a couch potato. Even did a stay in the Hanoi Hilton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kittinger

I saw the first space capsuls at the washington musem . . total pieces of crap about as big as a garbage can . . and get this: the door locked from the 'outside' . . after they crammed that poor bastard in there he going for the ride even if he changed his mind :1orglaugh

What a nutter. :D