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Project Excelsior Free Fall From Edge Of Space
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keywords: project excelsior, high-altitude parachute jump, stratosphere
Synopsis: Project Excelsior was a series of tests for what equipment will be needed and how to handle high-altitude parachute jump near the stratosphere in case of emergency the new age of high-altitude jet fighters and bombers plus other aircraft...(read more)
- Date: 1959-1960
- Duration: 00:35:43
- Sound: No
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Project Excelsior - Free Fall From Edge Of Space
Project Excelsior-Testing Using Parachute Dummy. Image of gondola and balloon above the clouds. Capt Joseph Kittinger stepping out of gondola and free falling away from the camera. Inflated balloon ready for launch; Two parachute dummies hanging from crane hook; launch of balloon and release of frame with parachute dummies; LS's balloon and payload of parachute dummies rising. CU release of parachute dummy and dummy falling away. Free falling dummy. Second dummy is released. Dummy being dropped by C-123 in flight to left; dummy falling away from camera and deployment of parachutes.
00:05:20;16
Project Excelsior-Captain Kittinger Footage. Capt Kittinger's equipment; CU's Capt Kittinger putting on jump clothing and equipment; Capt Kittinger entering altitude and temperature chamber. CU's Capt Kittinger in gondola in temperature chamber. Capt Kittinger leaving chamber.
00:12:56;05
Capt Kittinger walking out of transfer van. Capt Kittinger breathing oxygen, putting on equipment and getting into gondola setting bed of a truck. Preparations for attaching gondola to balloon. Sign on gondola reads "This Is The Highest Step In The World".
00:18:16;15
Inflation of balloon; release of balloon and lift-off of gondola. CU Capt. Kittinger in gondola; balloon and gondola rising. Capt Kittinger stepping out of gondola. LS of Capt Kittinger falling away from camera. LS horizon from split-frame camera carried by Capt. Kittinger during jump. Footage of Capt Kittinger descending.
00:23:03;19
Night scene of technicians working on gondola; CU's of Capt Kittinger talking with master Sargent G.A. Post; Capt Kittinger having picture taken near gondola. Technicians unrolling plastic balloon. Capt Kittinger getting into gondola; inflation of balloon. LS release of balloon. Capt Kittinger in gondola; release and ascent of gondola; balloon and gondola rising above clouds. CU Capt Kittinger in gondola. Capt Kittinger stepping out of gondola and falling away from camera. LS horizon from camera carried by Capt Kittinger during jump. Parachute deploying and Capt Kittinger landing. USAF personnel helping Capt Kittinger out of heavy clothing and equipment; Capt Kittinger walking to and getting into CH-21A (H-21A) helicopter. CH-21B (H-21B) in flight to right.
