Space diving
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Similar to skydiving, space diving is the act of jumping from an aircraft or spacecraft in near space and falling towards Earth. The Kármán line is a common definition as to where space begins, 100 km
Joseph Kittinger leaps from his gondola at 31.3 km (102,800 feet).
Yevgeny Andreyev (colonel)
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Yevgeny Nikolayevich Andreyev was a colonel in the Soviet Air Force. He set an official record for the longest-distance free-fall parachute jump on 1 November 1962, which the Guinness Book of Records
Space diving
…he set a record for the highest, longest-distance, and longest-duration skydive, from a height greater than 102,000 feet (31 km). On 1 November 1962, Yevgeni Andreyev and Pyotr Dolgov ascended from Volsk, near Saratov, undertaking a similar project for the Soviet Air Force. Under what was known as the VOLGA program…
The Volga balloon gondola with his portrait at right