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| | Project Excelsior - US Air Force Museum Cold War History Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | As Project Excelsior did not have the resources to use high performance aircraft to test the new escape system, a balloon gondola was designed and built by the skilled staff at Wright Field to carry the pilot to the desired altitudes for the tests. |
 | | During Excelsior II, the second test on December 11, 1959, Kittinger jumped from an altitude of 74,700 feet. |
 | | On the third and last jump in Excelsior III on August 16, 1960, Captain Kittinger jumped from a height of 102,800 feet, almost 20 miles above the earth. |
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