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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. Commemorative cover honoring Kittinger's historic "U.S.A.F. Balloon to Earth Parachute Jump," postmarked at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on August 18, 1960, filled out and signed by Kittinger: "Place: Holloman A.F.B., N.M., Altitude: 103,000, Date: 16 Aug. 60, By Joseph W. Kittinger, Capt." In very fine condition.
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