{"id":134545,"date":"2022-12-10T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134545"},"modified":"2022-12-10T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:18:55","slug":"col-joe-kittinger-who-made-a-parachute-jump-from-space-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134545","title":{"rendered":"Col Joe Kittinger, who made a parachute jump from space, dies aged 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134546 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kittinger-236x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kittinger-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kittinger-262x333.png 262w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kittinger-768x976.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kittinger-1209x1536.png 1209w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kittinger.png 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5JC made sure we were aware of the passing of Colonel Joe Kittinger, USAF (ret). He held the parachute altitude record for more than 50 years. He most famously jumped from a balloon from more than 102,000 feet. He was later a fighter pilot over Vietnam, shooting down a MiG-21 while serving with the storied &#8220;Triple Nickle&#8221; 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron. He was shot down himself and spent 11 months as a guest of the Hanoi Hilton.<\/p>\n<p>The colonel held two Silver Stars, two Legions of Merit, six Distinguished Flying Crosses,\u00a0 three Bronze Star Medals (two w\/ &#8220;V&#8221; for valor), and 24 Air Medals, among many other personal and service decorations.<\/p>\n<p>Kittinger passed away yesterday at the age of 94. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/legendary-air-force-pilot-parachuted-19-miles-earth-dead-94\">Fox News report.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5JC made sure we were aware of the passing of Colonel Joe Kittinger, USAF (ret). He &hellip; <a title=\"Col Joe Kittinger, who made a parachute jump from space, dies aged 94\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134545\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Col Joe Kittinger, who made a parachute jump from space, dies aged 94<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,10,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-historical","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}