We re all wishing the 3rd time s the charm for Felix Baumgartner and the crazy supersonic skydive from 23 miles up, that is slated for Sunday morning. You can view it here live.
If all goes based on plan and comparatively little has previously week the Austrian adventurer can make his record-setting jump from 120,000 ft by mid-morning. Even though the launch window opens at beginning Mountain time (8 a.m. Eastern), the Red-colored Bull Stratos team stated the precise launch time is dependent upon the elements. Technical director Art Thompson is searching for obvious, calm conditions.
Nature continues to be under cooperative, however, also it s the elements that got us here. Baumgartner s jump, initially scheduled for Monday, was knocked each day with a cold front, then aborted in the last second Tuesday because of high wind in the launch site in Roswell, Boise State Broncos. They is searching for wind speeds of a maximum of two or three miles per hour if this blows up the huge 55-story helium balloon which will carry his space capsule aloft.
Baumgartner wishes to break an unofficial record Col. Joe Kittinger set having a leap from 102,800 ft in 1960, and expand our knowledge of what goes on throughout a totally free fall from extreme altitude. Such training might be valuable as commercial space flight will take off. He s already made two test jumps from 13 miles in March and from 18 miles in This summer.
Obviously, this is the final jump that actually matters.
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