Red Bull Stratos
 

Still trying to figure out how exactly they got his beach balls to fit into his suit. This man is a badass.

They are conducting a live press conference here in a few, for anyone interested: http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/

Intense

Preliminary data: 373 m/s or 1342 kph or 833.9 mph... in other words, mach 1.24. Has to be peer reviewed, but looks like he broke the sound barrier. :D

Dude stepped off the edge @ 128,100ft.
Motherfucker. :tremble:

Exactly! I have trouble climbing to 10 feet off the ground. :panic: 128k, it's more like :lala: close your eyes and jump.

I watched it with my girlfriend at lunch. She could barely handle it on the cell phone.

I've been pretty interested in this for a while. I'm a chemistry major who wants to work with rocket and jet propulsion. To me this is the beginning of privatized space travel. Kittinger was the first step for NASA in the 60s. Less than a decade later, we were on the moon.

I think regular space flights for private citizens ins't too far off in the future. I think private travel to the moon will happen in our lifetime.

Can you imagine what was going through his mind standing on the platform- knowing you are falling 24 miles AND going to go faster than the speed of sound ?

Balls- he has them.

:rockwoot:

I read an article about him a year ago, where they said he'd be in big trouble unless he kept himself heads-down (kind of like they did on Star Trek) for the first half of it. I was surprised he didn't do that.