{"id":38,"date":"2006-08-16T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T22:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-08-16T07:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:33:04","slug":"happy-kittinger-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/38","title":{"rendered":"Happy Kittinger Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Kittinger\">Joseph Kittinger&#8217;s<\/a> third and highest parachute jump in 1960. Using a helium balloon, he reached an altitude of 31,300 meters; upon exiting the gondola, his speed peaked at something close to 618 mph. The film of the jump shows the curve of the earth and a sky that is quite black &#8211; he was a third of the way to the Karman Line (100 km up; the line that officially marks &#8216;space&#8217;). A couple clips, while I figure out how to embed videos into the blog: a short subject on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yDJ6L2zYtpM\">Project Excelsior<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P_9QHBMJdrI&amp;NR\">clip<\/a> from the Discovery Channel showing the jump. Col. Kittinger is one of the unsung pioneers of the space age; prosit!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update &#8211; Aug 16, 2012<\/strong>. In a classic case of link rot, both the above clips have been yanked from YouTube. Here are a couple others.<\/p>\n<p>A newsreel piece:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z8RRkMsHOMU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are a quite a few YouTube color clip assemblages with iffy soundtracks. This is not one of them:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fM39Z3grkpg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the anniversary of Joseph Kittinger&#8217;s third and highest parachute jump in 1960. Using a helium balloon, he reached an altitude of 31,300 meters; upon exiting the gondola, his speed peaked at something close to 618 mph. The film &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wunderkammer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}