Red Bull Stratos - freefall from the edge of space
 

Live stream.

Looks like its going to be launched at 1130 est.

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.

didn't they already do this?

I'm probalby wrong though. seems like I remember seeing a vid of it.

Weather delay. Should be happening right now.

that was the final test run

Yes, they are filing the balloon.

oh. ok.

They did a high up jump a few months ago. I take it this is even higher~

LoL it sounds like the guy is freaking out a tad.

wish i had sound. damnit carl.

I'm sure all of us Chiefs fans are waiting for him to splat so we can cheer his demise.

pussies they are aborting

just cancelled

for the day, or just temporarily?

well that was anticlimactic

its ballsy and cool and all, but wtf? that is quite a bit of money and resources to pay to have a dude freefall from space when we already know you can do it rather safely in an aircraft.

free falling from space. not dangerous.
wind - dangerous.

Gotta bump this. Launch may be happening in about 45 minutes.

The live stream is here>

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/

About to launch the balloon.

Balloon launched.

Still 2 hrs away from the jump?

Yeah, I'll check back in a bit.

Should jump around 10:15am-10:25am PST, but if they decide to drop ballast past the jet stream they may be a little earlier...

Live

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I'm looking at some of the telemetry there and most of it means nothing to me, exceptions being that it's 66 below zero outside and in addition to climbing he's going east at 117 mph. Jet stream baby.

Pretty cool. For those watching, the old guy they keep showing in ground control is pretty much a badass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger

Wow....balloon is only 1/1000 of an inch thick?

It's live on Discovery Channel if anyone, like me, is getting tourettes from watching the live stream.

"Hold On....I screwed up"

I'm going to guess that's not in the top 10 things one would want to hear in this situation

Cool. Thx

Sounds like his internal heaters aren't working...

Face plate heater cranked up, but he's losing heat in his helmet...

No shit. That's not something you want to hear.

On a side note: Is it too late to tie a 'Fire Pioli' banner on this guy?

So isn't it possible that he lands way off course?

I think he's carrying a .45 in the event of landing behind enemy lines.

That looked like Roswell's airport.

Where did they launch from?

I wonder what the live pic delay is.
The guy in the studio with the Cut button better be pounding a 6 pack of red bull right now.

Roswell.

Missed opportunity. DAMNIT!

I was wondering the same thing. I don't know how they control that. When he was up in the jet stream his lateral speed was like 80 mph. While it was much less before and after, it was still like 15 mph and he'll have drifted for almost two hours by the time he jumps...

Cool, I have flown over that airport about 25 times on my way to Santa Teresa. They have a bunch of old airplanes parked all over the place.

There is an abandoned airport about 4 miles south of there, too.

They just said he's 50 miles east of Roswell now. Sounds like he's just gonna land in the desert.

I like how they have that tread tape on the platform outside the capsule. Wouldn't want him to slip and, you know, fall off.

Don't want him to go into an uncontrollable death spin.

He's over Texas now...

"free fall from the edge of space"

Sounds a lot like the 2012 Chiefs.

He's above 120,000 ft. Should be jumping any min.

That link doesn't appear to be working

starting egress procedures now

Discovery Channel is about a minute ahead of the link in post 17

127K feet, good luck Felix, happy landings

Getting close to jumping.

****ing jump already you goddamn ****stick.

Here we goooo!!!!

This is more exciting than the Chiefs game.

128,000 feet now

Another 28,000 feet to go?

dumping of cabin pressure.....forgot to quote Bug......that was in response to his ?

Losing altitude.

Yeah I must have misunderstood something there.

the capsule has been riding steady at 127K feet for a while now, they just have to be absolutely sure his suit is working properly before the cabin depressurizes or he could die almost instantly

door open

THE DOOR HAS OPENED!

**** that's awesome.


JIZZ

is it just me or does this seem like one of those things that could go horribly wrong with millions watching?

NFL has to be sweating. This is facinating.

not for all of the gold in Ft. Knox

I believe they have a 20 second delay if they need it.

I want to do this. Sign me up.

I'm sure he just wants to jump and get it over with

DO IT!

Rep and $10 casino cash to the first person to post on Chiefsplanet while doing this.

Ho lee ****
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Holy shit 725mph

holy crap.....huge spin

that spin does not look good at all

They stopped the video when he started tumbling.

Thank goodness he straightened up. :eek:

Pulled out of that ****ing spin
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Holy shit, that spin at that speed was nuts!

back in control....damn that was scary

Spinning like a top

He's probably saying holy ****
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He's talking