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PenniF 10-15-2012 06:22 AM
Parachute jump from space
 
Please .. if you didn't get to watch it this weekend -- please go to www.redbullstratos.com and watch the incredible video of this young man's "sky dive" from 23 miles above the earth. i watched live - with my heart in my throat - and remembered back to watching all the marvels of the space program as a kid. This type of thing has only been done once before - from 19 miles up - in the '60s as part of the NASA space program. There are more articles out there today -- but watching it happen was WOW ... AMAZING !!!

gramajo 10-15-2012 06:31 AM
All I can say is "WOW"

QuiltnNan 10-15-2012 07:09 AM
that was so incredibly brave of him

crafty pat 10-15-2012 07:15 AM
That was amazing. My heart was in my throat.

mudose8 10-15-2012 09:04 AM
Watched it live, too. It really was amazing!

Jingle 10-15-2012 09:51 AM
I haven't seen it but, I think the guy needs a better hobby and/or a better way of getting attention.

PenniF 10-15-2012 10:18 AM
Originally Posted by Jingle (Post 5587513)
I haven't seen it but, I think the guy needs a better hobby and/or a better way of getting attention.
He is a dare-devil - true - but they were collecting a lot of scientic data -- as it has long been under consideration by NASA as a potential way of saving a flight crew in a crippled spacecraft - ie: low orbit/upper atmosphere free fall / individual parachute landing.

Mellina 10-15-2012 02:15 PM
That was wonderful to watch.

Tartan 10-15-2012 02:43 PM
Why? I always wonder why the daredevils feel the need to do stunts. I wonder about the pod he jumped out of, does that end up as space junk or is it going to fall back to earth?

DogHouseMom 10-15-2012 03:01 PM
Originally Posted by Tartan (Post 5588235)
Why? I always wonder why the daredevils feel the need to do stunts. I wonder about the pod he jumped out of, does that end up as space junk or is it going to fall back to earth?
Why NOT?? :) As OP posted - they collected some valuable data that could come in use in the future. As for the pod, it landed and they will collect data from that as well.

I was glued to it live. When I saw him standing on the edge of the pod about to jump ... I held my breath, and I don't think I exhaled until he flattened out his spin. It was simply amazing and incredibly brave.


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