Parachute jump from space
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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 !!!
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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.
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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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