Size #1: 15.2 x 10.1 cm. Comes with Steve Zarelli's Letter of Authenticity # 201220-Z002977.
Size #2: 6.8 x 12.2 cm. It comes with Steve Zarelli's Letter of Authenticity # 201220-Z003013.
Size #3: 10.1 x 12.2 cm. Black and white.
Size #2: 6.8 x 12.2 cm. It comes with Steve Zarelli's Letter of Authenticity # 201220-Z003013.
Size #3: 10.1 x 12.2 cm. Black and white.
Description:
Three pictures signed by Joe Kittinger.
Colonel Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) is a retired officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) and a Command Pilot. His initial operational assignment was in fighter aircraft, then he participated in the Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior high-altitude balloon flight projects from 1956 to 1960 and was the first man to fully witness the curvature of the Earth. He set a world record for the highest skydive: 102,800 feet (31.3 km) on August 16, 1960.
As a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, Kittinger shot down a North Vietnamese MiG-21 jet fighter. He was later shot down himself, spending 11 months as a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese prison until he was repatriated in 1973.
In 1984, he was also the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon.
In 2012, Kittinger participated in the Red Bull Stratos project as capsule communicator at age 84, directing Felix Baumgartner on his 24-mile (39 km) freefall from Earth's stratosphere, which broke Kittinger's own 53-year-old record. Baumgartner's record would be broken two years later by Alan Eustace.
Joining the Red Bull Stratos project, Kittinger advised Felix Baumgartner on Baumgartner's October 14, 2012 free-fall from 128,100 feet (39,045m). The project collected leading experts in the fields of aeronautics, medicine and engineering to ensure its success. Kittinger eventually served as CAPCOM (capsule communicator) for Baumgartner's jump, which exceeded the altitude of Kittinger's previous jump during Project Excelsior.
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