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When it came time for me to jump, I was ready to jump because I was heading back toward a more friendly environment, a friendly planet that we’re used to. I had made this jump a thousand times in my mind. I’d gone through every step a thousand times. Just before I jumped, I said a silent prayer. I reached over to hit a button that started the cameras going. And then I just did a little hop² off the step of the gondola³. You can’t tell that you’re going fast. You can’t tell anything and I looked up at the balloon and the balloon was firing into space. And I said, “Gosh, that’s amazing.” And then I realized it was me that was going down at a fantastic rate and the balloon was standing⁴ still. 

 

He falls for 16 miles. The thin air offers almost no resistance. He reaches 614 miles an hour, approaching the speed of sound. After a record-breaking 4 minutes and 36 seconds of free fall, Kittinger opens the main parachute. He drifts down to the desert floor and lands. 

 

We were just elated because we had accomplished⁵ what we’d set out to do. There were a lot of people that said we couldn’t do it. And we proved that we could do it…

 

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