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US Air Force officer (1928–2022) who held the world record for the highest skydive—102,800 feet—from 1960 until 2012, and the first person to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon. Two items: a color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Kittinger's record-breaking 'Project Excelsior' parachute jump, signed in black felt tip, "Joe W. Kittinger, 102,800', 16 Aug. 60"; and a 'balloon mail' cover carried during the 1980 Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, signed on the front in blue ballpoint , "Joe Kittinger," with his stamped signature on the reverse. In overall fine condition.
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