Magnificent Failure: Free Fall from the Edge of Space [signed by Joe Kittinger]
Language: English
Published by U.S.A.: Smithsonian Books, 2003
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.Riverby Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover with DJ. White spine and sky blue paper over boards. Pictorial DJ. Binding and pages in excellent condition. DJ with mylar protector. 301 pages. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 2003. Complete number line indicating first printing. Signed on the half title page by Capt. Joe Kittinger. Kittinger is a Air Force Colonel and test pilot who (mind-bogglingly) spent much of the late 1950s and early 1960s riding balloons up to the very edge of space and then leaping out. He held records for highest balloon ascent, highest free-fall, and several others among the most extreme aviation records of the pre-spaceflight era. While this book is primarily about Nick Piantanida, Kittinger is often mentioned. (Craig Ryan assisted Kittinger in writing his own autobiography in 2011 - there are no signed copies of that available). Scarce.
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- Title
- Magnificent Failure: Free Fall from the Edge of Space [signed by Joe Kittinger]
- Author
- Craig Ryan [Joe Kittinger]
- Publisher
- U.S.A.: Smithsonian Books
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1588341410
- ISBN 13
- 9781588341419
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- NASA/Space
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