Members of the astronomy club of Asahigaoka Senior High School here flew the high-altitude balloon ... said he could see the layer of atmosphere over the Earth in video footage because the ...

Browse a gallery of the U.S. Air Force's high-altitude balloon experiments and the researchers, scientists, and test pilots who made them possible.

As you can see in the accompanying video, the Kittinger jumps were part of an Air Force project to test multi-stage parachutes made for high-altitude ejections. This was dangerous testing.