with Kittinger serving as a technical advisor to Baumgartner. Kittinger does, however, still hold the records for longest drogue fall and longest freefall. Response Kittinger's efforts during Project Excelsior proved that it was possible for an air crew to descend safely after ejecting at high altitudes. President Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded Kittinger the C. B. Harmon Trophy for his work on Excelsior. Kittinger also received an oak leaf cluster to the Distinguished Flying Cross, the J.J. Jeffries Award, the A. Leo Stevens Parachute Medal, and the Wingfoot Lighter-Than-Air Society Achievement Award. See also Alan Eustace who in 2014 jumped from and had a freefall with a drogue chute which exceeds both of Joseph Kittinger's records. Le Grand Saut Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist who in 1931 went to in a helium balloon in a spherical gondola. Red Bull Stratos, a 2012 mission advised by Kittinger, with Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner setting a new record Space diving Notes References Burkhard Bilger, Our Far-Flung Correspondents, "Falling," The New Yorker, August 13, 2007, p. 58 Further reading (Joseph W. Kittinger's autobiography) External links On Stratocat website National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Excelsior page U.S. Air Force Footage of Excelsior Tests Details of the Excelsior I flight Details of the Excelsior II flight Details of the Excelsior III flight -The Big Jump- Interview with Joseph Kittinger The Highest Step - video Col. Joe Kittinger speaks at the Kircher Society Meeting - Video Pt1 - featuring an extended Project Excelsior Video Col. Joe Kittinger speaks at the Kircher Society Meeting - Video Pt2 Col. Joe Kittinger speaks at the Kircher Society Meeting - Video Pt3 Excelsior III - the Long, Lonely Leap painting by Stuart Brown Ballooning Military projects of the United States Military parachuting Space diving Space research Human subject research in the United States