{"id":2460404,"date":"2026-06-22T22:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/joe-kittinger-excelsior-1960-jump-baumgartner-stratos\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:56:48","slug":"joe-kittinger-excelsior-1960-salto-baumgartner-stratos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/joe-kittinger-excelsior-1960-jump-baumgartner-stratos\/","title":{"rendered":"El hombre que salt\u00f3 desde el borde del espacio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><\/p>\r\n<p>On 16 August 1960, a tiny open gondola hung beneath an enormous helium balloon, 102,800 feet above the New Mexico desert. That is more than 31 kilometres up \u2014 high enough that the sky overhead is black, the horizon curves, and there is almost no air left to breathe. Standing in the doorway, in a pressure suit, was a U.S. Air Force captain named Joe Kittinger.<\/p>\r\n<p>He looked down at the Earth, said a quiet prayer, and stepped off into nothing.<\/p>\r\n<p>What followed was one of the most extraordinary descents in the history of flight \u2014 a fall of more than four minutes that took a human being to the edge of the speed of sound, decades before anyone else would come close.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f1f3f5; border-radius: 8px; padding: 18px 22px; margin: 22px 0 26px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7;\"><strong style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: 17px;\">Quick Facts<\/strong><strong>Who:<\/strong> Captain (later Colonel) Joseph W. Kittinger, USAF<br \/><strong>Mission:<\/strong> Project Excelsior III<br \/><strong>Date:<\/strong> 16 August 1960<br \/><strong>Jump altitude:<\/strong> 102,800 feet (31,300 m)<br \/><strong>Freefall:<\/strong> 4 minutes 36 seconds, reaching ~614 mph (988 km\/h)<br \/><strong>Records held:<\/strong> 52 years \u2014 until Felix Baumgartner in 2012<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">The Highest Step in the World<\/h2>\r\n<p>Project Excelsior was deadly serious work: the Air Force needed to know whether a pilot or astronaut could safely bail out from the edge of space. Kittinger had already made two jumps when he rode Excelsior III up to 102,800 feet. During the ascent, the pressure seal in his right glove failed. His hand swelled painfully and lost its use \u2014 and he chose not to tell mission control, fearing they would abort. He kept climbing.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Four and a Half Minutes of Falling<\/h2>\r\n<p>Kittinger fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds, stabilised by a small drogue parachute, and accelerated to roughly 614 miles per hour \u2014 close to the speed of sound \u2014 in the thin upper atmosphere. He opened his main canopy at 18,000 feet and landed safely. In the process he set world records for the highest parachute jump, the longest drogue-stabilised fall, and the fastest speed ever reached by a human falling through the atmosphere.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was 1960. No one had done anything remotely like it, and for more than half a century, no one would.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Fifty-Two Years Later<\/h2>\r\n<p>Kittinger\u2019s altitude and speed records stood, almost unbelievably, for 52 years. Then, on 14 October 2012, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner rode a Red Bull Stratos balloon to about 127,852 feet \u2014 nearly 39 kilometres \u2014 and jumped. In freefall he reached roughly Mach 1.25, becoming the first human being to break the sound barrier with his own body, no aircraft around him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img data-opt-id=781328352  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%!important; max-width: 100%!important; height: auto!important; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/red-bull-stratos-capsule-smithsonian.jpg\" alt=\"The Red Bull Stratos capsule on display at the Smithsonian\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The actual Red Bull Stratos capsule that carried Felix Baumgartner to the edge of space in 2012, now preserved at the Smithsonian. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>And here is the detail that makes the story sing: in Baumgartner\u2019s ear the entire way up and down was a single calm voice \u2014 Joe Kittinger himself, then 84, serving as the mission\u2019s capsule communicator and mentor. The man who had set the record in 1960 personally talked the man who broke it through every step. The GoPro footage of that jump remains breathtaking:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYw4meRWGd4\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Why It Still Matters<\/h2>\r\n<p>Neither jump was a stunt for its own sake. Excelsior helped prove that aircrew could survive a bailout from extreme altitude; Stratos pushed pressure-suit and high-altitude escape technology forward again. But what lingers is the human thread running through both \u2014 a man stepping alone into the void in 1960, and then, fifty-two years later, steadying the voice of the next man to do it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Joe Kittinger died in 2022. He spent his life going higher and falling farther than almost anyone \u2014 and then made sure the record he loved was broken by someone he had personally guided to the edge.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: National Air and Space Museum; Wikipedia (Project Excelsior; Joseph Kittinger; Red Bull Stratos); AOPA; StratoCat.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mf-faq -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}<\/style>\r\n<h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2>\r\n<details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>Who jumped from the edge of space in 1960?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>U.S. Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger jumped from a balloon at 102,800 feet \u2014 nearly the edge of space \u2014 on 16 August 1960, as part of Project Excelsior. 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At that altitude the sky is black and the curvature of the Earth is visible \u2014 Kittinger called the view \"the highest step in the world.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>How fast did Kittinger fall?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>During a free fall lasting 4 minutes 36 seconds, Kittinger reached roughly 614 mph (988 km\/h) in the thin upper atmosphere \u2014 close to the speed of sound \u2014 before reaching denser air and deploying his parachute.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>Why did Joseph Kittinger jump from such a height?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>It was serious research, not a stunt. 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