>step away from the camera
FB, Insta, TikTok just gives people a heightened and unrealistic sense of their importance.
RIP Joseph Kittinger
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Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut to fly in space, was once asked if he would have done a high-altitude parachute jump as part of his training. “That’s easy,” Shepard said. “Hell no. Absolutely not.” But one man, the estimable Joseph W. Kittinger, had no such reservations and made not just one, but three jumps from the stratosphere. It’s an overstatement to say the first manned spaceflights wouldn’t have happened without Kittinger’s supremely risky work. But his jumps helped NASA better understand the risks so it could shape ways to cope as it raced the Soviets into space during the 1960s.
Joseph Kittinger died this week at 94, after a varied career of the sort not many military officers lead. In later life, Kittinger wasn’t as celebrated among pilots as say, Chuck Yeager or Bob Hoover, but during the early 1960s, his exploits were well covered in the popular press.
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https://www.avweb.com/insider/joe-kittingers-long-leap-into-history/
should have replied "kek"