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Mark starred as the host Commander Mark, an enthusiastic space man teaching drawing techniques to viewers at home and the on-screen characters Zebtron, Metaman and Cindy the Dragon. The show was broadcast to 11 million PBS viewers each week, far surpassing his original one million student goal.
He held the world record for the highest skydive—102,800 feet (31.3 km)—from 1960 until 2012. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He participated in the Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior high-altitude balloon flight projects from 1956 to 1960 and was the first man to fully witness the curvature of the Earth.
Luke Aikins (born November 21, 1973) [1] is an American professional skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer.He is the first person to intentionally dive from mid-tropospheric altitude and land safely without a parachute or a wingsuit and the second skydiver to intentionally jump and safely land without using a parachute.
It also got him the world record for oldest person to tandem skydive (meaning he was connected to a skydiving instructor). He did his third and most recent jump with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, on Nov ...
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Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting You Are an Artist, which began on the NBC network and included analysis of paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, and his later syndicated Learn to Draw series.
4-way FS (Formation Skydiving) Breaking off from a formation before parachute deployment. DC-3 loading; plus 'dirt diving'; 1977. Formation skydiving is a skydiving event where multiple skydivers attach themselves to one another by grabbing each other's limbs or by the use of "grippers" on their jumpsuit while free falling through the sky.
On Aug. 6, 2016, Kwon led a tandem jump with Tyler Turner, who was skydiving for the first time. During their jump, Kwon had issues with the main and reserve parachutes before he and Tyler Turner ...