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You could call Joe Kittinger New Mexico's first astronaut.
Before there were rockets capable of carrying humans above our planet's veil of air, Kittinger donned a primitive spacesuit and did it in a balloon.
Twenty miles above the Earth, in a place no human had ever been, Kittinger did what might seem unthinkable: He jumped out of a space capsule suspended from that helium balloon.