I was just watching a Boards of Canada video online and they had the strangest footage in it. A guy performing what looked like a sky dive from space. Turns out it was just that. Capt. Joseph Kittinger in 1960 jumped from a balloon at 102,800 feet and freefell for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 614 mph (almost the speed of sound)!!! This is one of the absolute craziest things I have ever seen, and I had NEVER heard of it before. Wow.
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