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From Fleming Field to infinity and beyond
Tim SpitzackEditor Our country’s earliest days of space exploration required men of unparalleled courage willing to do the unthinkable, and few were more daring than Joseph William Kittinger II, who rode a high-altitude balloon to the record-breaking height of 96,784 feet to test how humans reacted to the harsh conditions found high above the clouds.… Read more