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...lived in space, and only one man has spent more than a moment on the border of space. That man is wiry, redheaded Air Force Captain Joe W. Kittinger, 28, whose balloon of bubble-thin plastic last week rose to a record-breaking 96,000 ft. (TIME, June 10). His flight was planned by Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, head of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratory, as an approach to the bristling problem of staying alive in space...
...want much," says Stapp. "Just the sharpest pilot I ever met." Kittinger, the man selected, already knew his way in the air. He was an F-100 pilot with 3,600 jet hours, but Stapp had him take special training for ten months. He qualified as a balloon pilot, also got a paratrooper's rating by making ten parachute jumps. He learned to fly helicopters (often an unnerving experience for an airplane pilot) and took ten claustrophobia tests (24 hours each, sealed in a capsule). He worked with the experts of Winzen Research, Inc. of Minneapolis, makers...
...series of Air Force experiments designed to test human reaction to stratospheric flight (as in rocketcraft or manned satellites), Air Force Captain Joe W. Kittinger Jr. this week soared in a balloon over South St. Paul to a new manned balloon altitude record: 18 miles (96,000 ft.), besting the old Navy-made mark, set last November, by almost four miles...
Guided by Colonel John P. Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), boss of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratories, eager Jet Pilot Kittinger, 28, climbed into an instrument-cramped, air-conditioned gondola, was borne upward by a huge helium-filled plastic balloon as ground crews tracked his progress. Kittinger took only 80 minutes to reach the 18-mile mark, spent two hours at peak height before failure of his voice transmitter promoted safety-conscious Supervisor Stapp to order him to earth...
...from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures of a very correct 19th century English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters in the shape of a native--though properly British-educated--princess whom the travelers rescue as she is about to be sacrificed on her late husband's funeral pyre. There is even...