Fuck Yuri Gagarin

Joe Kittinger

Click the link to see the Boingboing entry, but then go to the Video and watch it. Fucking amazing!

This guy is my neighbor - he lives one house down. I haven't met him yet because I find it obnoxious to go bother neighbors, but after watching this, I really want to go down there just to introduce myself and say hi.

He took a balloon to the edge of space and then jumped out! First man to reach the speed of sound without any equipment, and a ballsy individual.

Wow.