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    Le Grand Saut (The Great Leap)

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    The mission:

    Michel Fournier will sky-dive from balloon at about 130,000 feet (40 kilometers, nearly 25 miles) above the plains of Saskatchewan, Canada.

    This would break the previous record set by John Kittinger, a USAF pilot who on August 16, 1960 jumped from a balloon at an altitude of 102,800 feet (31,330 m).

    The world records:

    - Altitude record for freefall
    - Altitude record for human balloon flight
    - Time record for longest freefall
    - Speed record for fastest freefall

    The date:

    Sunday May 25th if the weather permits
    Monday May 26th if Sunday is rained out
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 24 May 2008, 22:42.
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    so ... awesome ...

    I can see something like this becoming an extreme sport in the future...just not from that height. Here's another site I found:

    http://www.spacedive2008.com/index.html
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    • #3
      Holy crap.
      Would love to see a picture of the suit he'll be wearing...

      edit : oops. followed DR's link and its all there...
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      • #4
        Think this is hot? Try the next step for these guys - Space Diving from 60 miles.

        Before you laugh consider this: the suit is designed by Ortibal Outfitters, a company founded by former NASA types, including relatives of the astronauts that died in the Columbia incident, disgusted that astronauts couldn't bail out of spacecraft.

        20-30 years ago NASA even had plans for an individual orbital escape system using a ballut as a heat shield (like in the film "2010").

        PopSci article...


        Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 25 May 2008, 08:09.
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        • #5
          I guess this time there won't be any doubts about breaking sound barrier?...

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          • #6
            Seriously why wasn't a suit like that available before? Not knocking advances in science but this should have always been in the planning stages. If it was a heat issue at that scale then figure out a chute system that could slow you down enough to be manageable. SOMETHING.

            Anyway, this is awesome and I'd never bungee jump but I'd skydive and this just looks amazing.
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            • #7
              Le Grande Oooops....

              It seems our intrepid skydiver is having to deal with an erstwhile and now quite independant ballon....

              http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24821986


              The English-language version of the site was still down as of this post... but the French version is up and running.

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