Freefall From Edge Of Space!

[craigdbfan]

Freefall From Edge Of Space!


A LIVE webcast of the Red Bull Stratos will be live streamed at http://youtube.com/redbull and http://redbullstratos.com

Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space that will try to surpass human limits that have existed for more than 50 years. Supported by a team of experts, Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to more than 120,000 feet / 36,576 meters and make a record-breaking freefall jump in the attempt to become the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall (an estimated 690 miles / 1,110 kilometers per hour), while delivering valuable data for medical and scientific advancement.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

It was canceled because of high winds.

 

[craigdbfan]

lol Right as I post this it turns out the operation has been aborted for today and they'll retry on Thursday.

 

[Duke]

It will be an amazing feat once it's accomplished.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

What sucks is those balloons are very expensive and can only be used once. They have a back up one for when they re-schedule it but if the next one gets screwed up it will be a minute before they try again

 

[Know One]

Been done before and better, Captain Kirk did that in the cut scene of space chuting from "Generations."