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?