Joseph W. Kittinger - Skydiving From The Edge Of The World
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2009
- On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger jumped his last Excelsior jump, doing so from an air-thin height of 102,800 feet (31,334 meters). From that nearly 20 miles altitude, his tumble toward terra firma took some 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Exceeding the speed of sound during the fall, Kittinger used a small stabilizing chute before a larger, main parachute opened in the denser atmosphere. He safely touched down in barren New Mexico desert, 13 minutes 45 seconds after he vaulted into the void. The jump set records that still stand today, among them, the highest parachute jump, the longest freefall, and the fastest speed ever attained by a human through the atmosphere. Somewhat in contention is Kittinger's use of the small parachute for stabilization during his record-setting fall. Roger Eugene Andreyev, a Russian, is touted as holding the world's free fall record of 80,325 feet (24,483 meters), made on November 1, 1962.
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I come back to this video so many time throughout my life and it never ceases to give me chills.
It enhances Life and Consciousness. It makes you appreciate the wonder of the Universe and the human experience. 🌌☯️👽🛸🌎
I return to it when I need inspiration. It's like a religious moment when things are hard for me.
Same dude. Been doing it for at least the last 13 or 14 years
This video is like this old smell that brings back memories, please never delete it
I remember watching this on Google Video... about 15 years ago... I've been a fan of Kittinger for about 20 years now. Love the music and the video.
I feel the same as you brother! Honestly, I do not know why I glue my mind on this video...
RIP Sir.. A risk taker and pioneer died today.. Colonel Kiittenger.. A legend ..
I've been watching this video since I was a teenager when my dad died and I couldn't accept the reality I was living in. This video and this song hit me in a way that has stuck with me. I found the story of Joe Kittinger incredibly inspiring and used to watch this video when I couldn't get to sleep at night.
Grief is a burden and a challenge and I want anyone reading this who's suffering to know you have the right to your own challenges and triumphs. You don't need to go to space to achieve something amazing. I've struggled a lot in the past. Sometimes not killing yourself is the most amazing thing you can do.
Felix's jump was awesome, Kittinger's was magical
In case if anyone was wondering, the song is God Moving Over the Face of the Waters by Moby, and the speech is from the beginning of the 1993 movie "Alive".
This video never ceases to impress me.
Same. Every time I feel stressed I just come back and watch this video.
This is my favorite vid on RUclips, I can't stop watching it, but I want higher quality! :)
Rest in Peace, legend
Joseph Kittinger did this in a day and age, where this was an unknown. He didn’t have a team of hundreds, with the greatest technology our modern era can afford us. All he has was his sheer will and determination. He didn’t have a team of experts telling him he’d be okay. And ultimately, these jumps took his life. I have nothing but the utmost respect for him, and this video gives me chills too. I hope Mr. Kittinger ultimately found his peace, and knows how important he is, even 63 years later.
Be kind to one another folks, but most importantly… stay true to oneself.
One of the bravest things I've ever seen, I love this footage so great it was declassified for us to witness, Joseph kittinger legend! Like a boss! Then some. Epic.
Periodically i re-watch this because I find his courage so inspiring.
Kittinger had technology of its own time. He would never have jumped more than once for the Excelsior Project as he would have been killed if it wasn't for the parachute he worn, which saved his life. Parachute he was testing. He also used a drogue parachute to stabilize his fall, which Baumgartner hadn't.
I'm not minimizing Col. Kittinger incredible performance, it was breathtaking. But those two deserve the uttermost respect.
What amazes me about this video is how the author turns about three seconds of free-fall, seen from the balloon, combined with a few other scenes, into a complete story about the Excelsior project. I keep coming back to look.
Well done!
Im so glad this is still up. You loved this, RIP Kulick.
2:17 "This is the highest step in the world"
Goosebumps every time I see it.
"Kittinger's first high-altitude jump, from about 76,400 feet (23,300 m) on November 16, 1959, was a near-disaster when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness. The automatic parachute opener in his equipment saved his life. He went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of about 120 rpm. The g-forces at his extremities have been calculated to be over 22 times the force of gravity, setting another record".
Sure, congrats to Baumgartner to a great jump, but in my my eyes it is NOTHING compared to what what kissinger did back in the days when they had no idea what they were giving them self into.. I mean, this guy gave a leap in into the unknown that baumgartner did not... thechnology goes forward, and it's been half a decade... baumgarntner is of course safe since of all the the research and so on, but bat back then..... for me, kissinger is the big hero....
pettadalle76 absolutely....no comparison at all
yes....what Kissinger did....is an another level due to the big technology differences.....He is Icarus...He is my hero....
I agree completely
pettadalle76 Felix is a shitbrain who has been shunned by the skydive/base community for his arrogance
It was such a ‘leap into the unknown’ when Kittinger jumped that they were worried he’d get stuck in orbit. When he exited the gondola at first he feared that was what had happened as he couldn’t feel himself falling. That’s why you you see him roll over on to his back to look up to see where the balloon was. Absolute balls of steel that man, but humble too, unlike Felix ‘The Ego Has Landed’ Baumgardner.
the most inspirational human being alive today. Respect is an understatement.
What Felix did was amazing but what Joseph achieved (twice) is way more impressing.
joseph Kittinger living Legend!!
Fly, Fly like a Bird..
Being able to jump from such a height and live through it is such an awesome feat, given the then-known, unknown, and hit and miss technology of that time period. Thank you Joseph.
I love you Kittinger!!
I just figured out what movie the guy speaking at beginning of the song, its from the movie alive where they crashed into a mountain and had to survive by eatingnthe dead.
This guy gad some big brass ones.
Exactly 53 years ago, Kittinger left his Gondola at 102800ft after seeing the world as nobody had seen it before. He set numerous records, and one still stands. (longest freefall at 4 minutes 36 seconds). I have so much respect for him, Kittinger is a hero!
I bow down before Joe's awesomeness. We are not worthy of breathing the same air as him. :)
i thought it was a very cool thing, to have included cpt. Kittinger, in this latest attemp. both men are very awe inspiring individuals in my book !! and too watch this current one live, was just one of the most incredible things i've witnessed in my time !
Im a big fan of Kittinger... The most extreme guy ever!
Absolutely the best edited version of this event.
I seen this in an early national geographic magazine. the people watching the EKG meter said when he jumped, his heart stopped for almost a full second. He also had a problem with his glove not being fully "on" and almost lost his hand
he made it to the ground safely from 127000 ft high freefall ! congratulations and mission complete for Felix!
he himself stated, he came to 9/10th of the soundbarrier. He didn't say, he broke the speed of sound. But yeah, incredibly brave what he has done. This needs guts.
Great man in great video, thank you for music!
Along with a live version of RMW by Joe Walsh, this is just about the best thing I have watched on youtube. If there is anything else that raises the goosebumps as much, I would like to know. Watching this introduced me to UNKLE and they have profited from the consequent legal downloads. A wonderful video, thanks!
Hes got balls made of brass! Your my hero Joe.
Got the chance to meet the man. What he accomplished was amazing.
Thank you! I was wondering about the song. :)
Got the chance to the man when I was a kid. Amazing man, amazing story.
U N K L E ft Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters
thank you,man)
the legend !!!
There were many about with that bravery. From the X-series rocket planes to Gemini and Apollo and all their Eastern Bloc equivalents. Incredible people who marked some of humanity's greatest achievements. The stunning NASA footage of "For All Mankind" is a wonderful document of the era and well worth watching. Imagine going to the Moon with the computers of 1969 to help you.....
the viscosity of the air is lower anyway, I think those speeds were perfectly possible, terminal velocity is a changing number.
Who could dislike this?
Good choice of music.
Awsome footage
cool song,
still the man Kittinger!!
Good luck Felix!
No man, it's one of the bravest, ballsiest men who ever walked this planet....Joe Kittinger - a man who skydived from fucking outer space. You honor men like him.
4:48. the view of the sun, the edge of the earth, and space, taken by a camera on man just freefalling... Thats exhilarating just to watch in 240p!
@BushyX thanks, i didnt know if at some point they would need heat protection like the space shuttle, but i guess when the shuttle is orbiting its going several thousand miles an hour.
What did Kittinger do twice? You mean the high altitude jumps?
Kittinger jumped 3 times from high altitude, with Excelsior 1, 2, and 3.
Baumgartner jumped 3 times from high altitude, 2 test jump as Kittinger did. Baumgartner's were roughly at 76000ft, 96000ft and 127852.4ft.
I don't know what Kittingers test jump altitudes were, but his final one was 102800ft. The drogue cord also wrapped round his neck in Excelsior 2, nearly killing him.
Everybody comparing Kittinger to Baumgartner...you know Kittinger is actually WORKING on the Red Bull Stratos project, right? In other words, Kittinger is HELPING somebody to break his record. Maybe you should hold the same kind of respect he does. Just saying.
For the most part the goal in both is to see if man can live through something like that. They both came away with a yes. It could help in the future if we ever really start to go back into space. Maybe just maybe you won't have another Challenger or Columbia. For people who like space and well anything to do with flying this was cool to see and great to see what man kind can do.
That would be exhilarating! :D
GOD IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER BACK THEN!
Wow... 'Nuff said!
even more amazing to me is that years later joe coached the next man to do it again and beat his records. true sportsmanship
red bull. an energy drink company doing more interesting things than nasa.
Yes definitely!
We're proud to say that current record holder and #RedBullStratos advisor Col. Joe Kittinger is a Gator!
I was, thanks!!
Joe landed on the ground, dusted himself off, took his helmet off and said to the others "Okay, that was a good practice run. Load 'er up again boys. I'm going higher this time."
Good point, as Im sure you know from all your jumps above 100,000 feet there is absolutely no risk at all.
Fair point indeed... Although I'm surprised they didn't start warping gravity once he got back into the atmosphere.
LOL, actually, it was a rhetorical question. But thanks for sharing your hobbies with us.
He is still the first and even if record has been broke he is the only one that matters
@connectedmind1 If you are talking about the process which breaks down the meteors, then that happens in the mesosphere, some 70-80km above from where kittinger jumped. Kittinger jumped from the stratosphere.
Well to be fair this is 120,000 feet which is quite a bit higher than Kittinger's jump so we don't know if that could be done without today's technology but I fully agree that Kittinger is a complete badass. Also, does anyone know how many feet it takes before you have to go through reentry?
Does it really matter which of this two gentlemen is better? They both risked their life for the jump. By that single argument it shows that they're better than all of us combined.
So stop yer yappin, just give em a thumbs up and be done with it.
wow
Sorry guys, just a few questions. Its been a while since I have studied the earths atmosphere and all the physics etc related to it. But, 1)why did he not burn up/glow red when falling through the atmosphere. 2) Is it possible that he would have frozen as he fell through those clouds/ or even before? I mean I am guessing the temperature is very low. Thanks in advance
This is fucking incredible :O
There are 3 man made things visible from space.... the great wall of china, the pyramids...and Jospeh Kittingers balls. AMAZING feat for 50 years ago
*cheers* ;-)
That kid is incredible
@karl0sCannIbaLFoetuS Good question - I think he made a specialized parachute to open up at a far higher altitude than usual, so that he wouldn't be going too fast when he hit the lower, thicker layers of atmosphere. I could be wrong.
they still had those preliminary 'drag' chutes to slow you down before you opened your main parachute.
I wish I could push myself to do something so amazing..
There's multiple UAPs and spherical objects present in this video.
Yes there are. I've cataloged them.
Hi I am Jacob Kittinger that was my pops brother that did that
The one...
Where would we be without Volunteers .....
2023 . He knows his destiny
Joe and Felix are Gods ! RESPECT
which song is it?
Not to mention the fact the technology we have today is better than in Kittinger's.
perhaps im missing something, but how did he outdo terminal velocity when falling?
what is this song? i know its not dayvan cowboy because ive listened to that song thousands of times.
what is the title of the sountrack ini this video , please !!!!!
thank u ....i love it , this song
Reporting SIR!
While i do agree back then people had to be much tougher just to live daily life and I wholeheartedly despise jersey shore and anything related to it. BUT very recently Joes jump was beat by another. Look up red bull stratos. We still have men like this. Though doing it 50 years ago still seems much more impressive considering it was the first time anyone ever did it. So he literally took a leap of faith.
I do. A pressurized capsule containing three people would be cheaper to build, and safer to use, than pressureized suits.
Exceeding the speed of sound!!! If you were to yell at him to PULL THE SHOOT, by the time he heard it, it would be to late!
True. It would have taken a long time for it to recover...
name of song,please! ))
Right.
To say nothing of the babydaddy who ran out of the theater and drove off while leaving his girfriend and their kids in the theater.
You, sir, are infinitely wise.
Anyone would take this opportunity if it was given to them. All the people backing the jump, I would do it in a heartbeat.
"Those kinds of balls do exist, but only in an alternate dimension, parallel to ours but wholly separate, of which we mere mortals can comprehend only the smallest piece. The avatar of that vast dimension comprised entirely of great and majestic testicles has a name, but it cannot be pronounced by the human tongue. So you can just call him "Joe."
Well said, Cracked.
1. didnt burn coz the speed was about 900km/h (like airplanes that also dont burn)
(spaceship reenters at 30000 km/h -> burns) 2. he had a pretty warm suit, so he didnt freeze.
who knows whats name of this song?