The gondola from Piantanida's Strato-Jump III attempt is on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It’s easy to dismiss Nick Piantanida’s story when you first hear ...

Nick Piantanida did not have much training. He didn’t have much money. The New Jersey native had cobbled together a handful of sponsors and haggled with a U.S. senator for a bright orange space suit.

“I just watched the balloon go up and I said goodbye, ‘Goodbye, Nick.'” As Janice Piantanida Post remembers watching her husband’s hot air balloon soar into the sky, you see her waving. The camera ...

ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series has become appointment viewing for sports fans over the past few years, and its latest installment should be eye-opening for those who aren't familiar with Nick ...

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Click to open image viewer. Nick Piantanida, a 34-year old New Jersey truck driver, athlete and sky diver, ascended from Joe Foss Airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota aboard the Strato-Jump III ...

Volume II of ESPN's "30 for 30" documentary series concludes Thursday with the 30th entry in a slate that dates to October of 2012, and also marks the end of HBO-bound Bill Simmons' long association ...

On Thursday, July 30, ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series will explore the life of Nick Piantanida. Piantanida’s story will be told in Angry Sky, an in depth look at a daredevil from New Jersey who in ...

LAKEFIELD, Minn.-Forty-nine years ago, a man fell from the sky and landed in a cornfield in Lakefield. He was rushed to the hospital in Worthington, where he was treated for oxygen deprivation, but ...