Space Jump...

[Dux Be Us]

Dude jumps from a perfectly good balloon from 128,000 feet...NUTS man

[crow]

Just watched him land! Very cool! Wonder if he said, "Hold my beer and watch this!"


I bet Bigwater would of done it!

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[jdaves]

I got a kick out of the broadcaster saying "Well,....it appears that he will in fact go through with the jump". Ha Ha!! Was there another option?????

[Deltaduk]

Not me!!!

[levi127]

Dude was moving at over 700mph!!! Heck no! It took what 3 minutes for him to touch ground also from that evelvation.
When he leaned over the edge it was boom gone! He was moving man.

I saw they were going to stop him becuase something messed up when he was at 115k feet. Then they fixed it. He did tell them his mask was fogging up and he was getting light headed. Well yea he was spinning at 700mph in a circle for a minute!

[Drakeshead]

I watched it live on Discovery HD. If he had freefallen for another 14 seconds, he would have broken the freefall record of 4:36 seconds, or something like that.

They were mostly worried for the first 30 seconds due to the air being so light at that altitude that he would have no way of controlling himself if he started spinning. There was an G-force activated parachute that would have deployed if he were to start spinning uncontrollably.

[fieldt76]

I watched it live on Discovery HD. If he had freefallen for another 14 seconds, he would have broken the freefall record of 4:36 seconds, or something like that.

They were mostly worried for the first 30 seconds due to the air being so light at that altitude that he would have no way of controlling himself if he started spinning. There was an G-force activated parachute that would have deployed if he were to start spinning uncontrollably.

wouldn't that have like, I don't don't know, ripped him in half or something?

[Drakeshead]

I was wondering the same thing especially if the cords were to get tangled around him.

I bet NASA had all sorts of data sensors on him to record what all was going on with his body and suit.

[duckter]

As a young 'un, I can recall the family all gathered around the TV set to witness Evil Knievel's's annual daredevil attempts. Our family gathered for this one (and I was reminded of the old days) but, this one stole the friggin show. Unbelievable.

[Smoke68]

chest cam....... crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAT8v3_w87E&feature=player_embedded

[JaMak84]

Just think about how much more technology Felix had for this jump than what Kittinger had 50 years ago when he did it. I can just imagine the conversation when the NASA engineers walked in and said, "Hey boys, listen up! What we're gonna do next is put one of y'all in this here tin can with a parachute on your back. Tie it to this big ass balloon, fill it with helium and let it go. When that sumbeech gets as high as it can get, jump out and see if a man can survive the decent! Who's got dibs?"

[farmerc83]

Just think about how much more technology Felix had for this jump than what Kittinger had 50 years ago when he did it. I can just imagine the conversation when the NASA engineers walked in and said, "Hey boys, listen up! What we're gonna do next is put one of y'all in this here tin can with a parachute on your back. Tie it to this big booty balloon, fill it with helium and let it go. When that sumbeech gets as high as it can get, jump out and see if a man can survive the decent! Who's got dibs?"

Uh, hold my beer and my hat.....

[duckter]

Another thing that made this really cool is the fact that Kittinger was the guy in the mission control center talking and prepping Baumgartner during the fete. Just learned that today.