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Kittinger-jump
U.S. Air Force/Volkmar Wentzel
Taken on 16 August 1960
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000572287
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
An automatic camera captures Capt. (later Col.) Joseph Kittinger just as he stepped from the balloon-supported Excelsior gondola on August 16, 1960, at an altitude of 102,800 feet (31,300 m).
