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I thought he had a drone chute that he could have released to control the spinning, but did not want to as he would not have broken the record.
Weather ballons burst when they get high enough due to the pressure of the gas in the ballon. So i suppose the capsule parachuted back to earth on its own.
It all makes me think how out there Kittinger was 50 years ago