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In 1960, U.S. Air Force pilot&nbsp;Joseph Kittinger&nbsp;flew thirty kilometers straight up into the sky using a pressurized, high-altitude balloon. This very nearly made him the first man in space.&nbsp;
Then he jumped.
Mr. Kittinger&nbsp;free-fell for over twenty kilometers&nbsp;-&nbsp;at which point he was moving so fast that he broke the sound barrier.
He had all but left the earth&rsquo;s atmosphere; the sky around him was pitch black; he could see the outlines of entire continents; and the haiku-like abstraction of his available reference points &ndash; earth, balloon, space &ndash; made it impossible to tell if he was really falling.
Does this sound like fiction? Luckily, there&rsquo;s a film.
