# Kittinger-jump

- By: U.S. Air Force/Volkmar Wentzel
- Date: Taken on 16 August 1960
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000572287
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kittinger-jump.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/8/81/Kittinger-jump.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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).