Joe Kittinger Video: Leaps 102,800 feet from balloon

Ok there are nutcases in this world and many adrenalin junkies and in my eyes Joe Kittinger is one of them, Joe Kittinger leaps from a staggering 102,800 feet from a balloon, that is the edge of space my friends. Below you will see video footage of this jump which is awesome.

The video is from way back in 1960 August 16th of USAF Captain Joe Kittinger riding in a balloon up to the height of 102800 feet of which then he jumped out of the balloon skydiving back to Earth.

Kittinger reached a high speed of 1149 km/h (714 mph) of which 4 minutes and 36 seconds of that being freefall, during this skydive he was the only man to break the speed of sound without the aid of a vehicle of some sort. To this day this is still a world record skydive.