Real life Jeb Kerman

[Pawelk198604]

Jeb is an icon of Kerbal Space Program, brave, bold, courage, daredevil and little crazy:D

I interested in real life Jebediah not only pilots and astronauts but also sportsman's and daredevils

The real life Jeb's i want you suggestions who they are:D

[Xeldrak]

I'd go with John P. Stapp

Riding a rocket sled, experiencing up to 45 G, when the common knowledge was, that you would die at 18 G.

Suffering broken ribs, retina detatchments and all kinds of trauma - all voluntarily.

[Pawelk198604]

I'd go with John P. Stapp

Riding a rocket sled, experiencing up to 45 G, when the common knowledge was, that you would die at 18 G.

Suffering broken ribs, retina detatchments and all kinds of trauma - all voluntarily.

Yes, that is very like Jeb:D

[Themohawkninja]

I can't think of any specific names, but whoever would stand on top of WWI era biplanes to showoff, and do stunts.

[Pawelk198604]

My candidates

Yuri Gagarin, for first spaceflight

Alexi Leonov for doing first space walk

Neil Armstrong for saving Gemini 8

Felix Baumgartner

Steve Fossett balloon trip around the world

Whole crew of Apollo 13

Less spectacular but nevertheless inspiring

16 years girl Laura Dekker sail solo around world

12 years old boy doing 3 areal revolution on skateboard

The two last one i put only because it really cool that kids nowadays still have passion and have sense of adventures, to do something that "no human hasn't did before"

[astropapi1]

I can't think of any pilot or astronaut, but in terms of badassery, Jack Churchill takes the big prize.

Don't TL;DR on the wiki page, seriously, it's worth reading it.

[Rockcoole]

I can't think of any pilot or astronaut, but in terms of badassery, Jack Churchill takes the big prize.

-snip

Don't TL;DR on the wiki page, seriously, it's worth reading it.

Man this guy sounds incredible!

[drakesdoom]

I don't know of a single one on this list that wouldn't make that cut, Medal of Honor recipients.

Here are a few of exceptional note.

Harold C. Agerholm

Elmer C. Bigelow

Thomas A. Baker

Also this guy

[Fox62]

Dang. I got nothing, but seriously, the dude on the bike is practically a spitting image of Jeb when it comes to motorbike racing!

[astropapi1]

Man this guy sounds incredible!

Crazy man, he was.

Also this guy.

-snip-

Incredible recovery!

[palker]

Anybody who sat in this while it was fueled(with hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine).

[Fox62]

Manfred Von Richtofen (AKA the Red Baron).

He is credited with 80 kills.

Need I say more?

[shoveycat]

Valeri Polyakov: King Of Space

Valeri was a Russian doctor/cosmonaut, who really wanted to test if the human body and mind could survive in space for the time needed to reach, say, Mars, although, due to the danger of doing this test and the stupidly high amount of badassery required, the Russian government couldn't find an astronaut who'd do the job. So, Valeri did what any reasonable, average, white collar doctor did and donned a space suit and just sat up in a space station for 677 F*CKING DAYS. And due to the apparent lack of things to do while locked in an orbiting tin can, all time not spent recording results was spent straight up rockying it up to maintain as peak a physically condition one could with no gravity for neatly 2 years. After said years in space, and returning, Valeri stood up and walked to the chair he was given. NASA astronaut Norman Rhagard said that the man looked "Like he could wrestle a bear"

'nuff said

[Fox62]

Damn. That guys a frigging badass.

[deadshot462]

Gordon Cooper:

Toward the end of the Faith 7 flight there were mission-threatening technical problems. During the 19th orbit, the capsule had a power failure. Carbon dioxide levels began rising, and the cabin temperature jumped to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38°C). Cooper fell back on his understanding of star patterns, took manual control of the tiny capsule and successfully estimated the correct pitch for re-entry into the atmosphere. Some precision was needed in the calculation, since if the capsule came in too steep, g-forces would be too large, and if its trajectory were too shallow, it would bounce off the atmosphere and be sent back into space. Cooper drew lines on the capsule window to help him check his orientation before firing the re-entry rockets. "So I used my wrist watch for time," he later recalled, "my eyeballs out the window for attitude. Then I fired my retrorockets at the right time and landed right by the carrier." Cooper's cool-headed performance and piloting skills led to a basic rethinking of design philosophy for later space missions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper

[Jones-250]

I can't think of any pilot or astronaut, but in terms of badassery, Jack Churchill takes the big prize.

-Snibeti snäb-

Don't TL;DR on the wiki page, seriously, it's worth reading it.

My respect for him.... It-has-no-limits!

[shoveycat]

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My respect for him.... It-has-no-limits!

The original post didn't even mention how he always carried bagpipes and was the only soldier to kill an enemy with a longbow in WWII

[Jones-250]

The original post didn't even mention how he always carried bagpipes and was the only soldier to kill an enemy with a longbow in WWII

Yeah, I did read the Wikipedia page... Definitely worth the effort. My jaw fell lower and lower for every passing row.