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What Does One Wear on a 23-Mile Space Jump?

Posted October 05, 2012 10:58 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

As the sun rises over the New Mexico desert Monday morning, Felix Baumgartner will step into a space capsule suspended beneath an immense helium balloon and slowly ascend to the edge of the stratosphere, where he will step into the void and fall 23 miles to Earth.

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Re: What Does One Wear on a 23-Mile Space Jump?

10/08/2012 9:29 AM

I'd sure *like* to see it ... sadly, this is one of those all-too-many websites that (my employer's) ISP-filtration will not permit access to. Would sure like to know whutzup with such places...(?)
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