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A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from air Make. Restless and unchallenged, he considered ballooning, a lifelong enthusiasm and a regular diversion for his thoughts during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its quest he placed several ballooning distance information, including the first single crossing of the Atlantic in 1984. However the aeronautical feats that first made him an American hero acquired occurred 25 % of a hundred years earlier. By enough time Kittinger was taken down in Vietnam, in 1972, his Air Make career had been legendary. He had made a name for himself at Holloman Air Make Foundation near Alamogordo, New Mexico, as a test pilot who helped display that egress success for pilots at high altitudes was possible in disaster situations. Ironically, Kittinger and his pre-astronaut acquaintances would help propel Us citizens into space using the world's oldest traveling machine - the balloon. Kittinger's work on Project Excelsior - which engaged daring high-altitude bailout lab tests - received him the Distinguished Traveling Cross a long time before he received a assortment of medals in Vietnam. Regardless of the many accolades, Kittinger's proudest instant remains his free semester from 102,800 toes where he achieved a rate of 614 a long way per hour.
