Red Bull Stratos; Jumping from the edge of sapce LIVE FEED! 50,000 ft and climbing

[Matty]

Yeah, Kittinger.

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


Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[gregm]

Supposedly the old goofy guy was the one who previously held the record for the highest freefall.

That was Kittinger, I just realized that after reading a few articles about the jump. Very cool to have him part of that team. 84 years old. Felix is no spring chicken , he is 43 years old.

 

[senco78]

I lost interest w/ the prejump BS and forgot to turn back for the jump
any link for footage of jump?

 

[Blitty]

Kittinger is a REAL Badass.

He didn't have all that fancy technology and control room crap.

 

[kato]

neato

 

[gregm]

They just shoved Kittinger into a suit and kicked him out of there. Felix and Kittinger are just incredibly brave guys, very cool that Kittinger was with Felix and his team

I want to find out what happened to those first monkeys in space too, those guys had no idea what was going on

 

[wal66]

We need to go higher.

FreeFall how do you feel about wearing an asbestos suit and re-entry rockets?

 

[Blitty]

I like how in the first vid, at the very end kittinger is walking away smoking a cig/joint.

BADASS.

 

[senco78]

safety first fellas
someone missed 1 of the pre-jump checklist items


http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/wo.../10/13/vo-base-jumper-survives-cliff-fall.nrk

 

[Archie]

we need to go deeper

 

[Matty]

safety first fellas
someone missed 1 of the pre-jump checklist items


http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/wo.../10/13/vo-base-jumper-survives-cliff-fall.nrk

lol, wtf

 

[Saulty]

safety first fellas
someone missed 1 of the pre-jump checklist items


http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/wo.../10/13/vo-base-jumper-survives-cliff-fall.nrk

spent $2000 on parachute, $2000 on videocamera and $25 on metal stand. Brilliant!

 

[roguejuror]

i saw a cool helmet cam of this but they yanked off youtube

 

[mrquincy]

Yeah, Kittinger.

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


Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Wtf is that a red tool box duct taped to his ass? Was that his seat?

 

[mrquincy]

Helmet cam footage. Wouldnt embed.

[video]http://gizmodo.com/5951725/first-head-cam-footage-from-daredevils-space-jump[/video]

 

[Archie]

 

[Saulty]

Wtf is that a red tool box duct taped to his ass? Was that his seat?

Probably housed all the instruments NASA needed to record data.

 

[mrquincy]