23 mile skydive!

[TW]Sponge · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:03

When is the press conference?

NightSt@lk3r · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:04

[TW]Sponge;22960092 said:
When is the press conference?

"Shortly"

qqg3 · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:05

Felix was born on 20th April (1969), on the same day in 1972 Apollo 16 landed on the Moon

DiCe! · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:05

What a boss,

Glaucus · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:07

V F said:
It's a shame we'll never find out if that safety will ever improve with space shuttles since Obama killed it all and wont be anything new to replace it. It would have been great to know if some plates fail on the shuttles the astronauts could have still bailed if that existed. Rather than burn to their deaths.

I was always surprised there was never an emergency ejector escape pod section if such an occurrence took place.

As cool as the shuttle was, it wasn't great.

They are building Orion (capsuale) and SLS(rocket) that are capable of deep space flight, so far more cool than shuttle.
And skylon has passed it's pre-cooler tests so if they can get funding, it'll be far cheaper and better than the shuttle.

chrisxuk · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:08

Sui · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:11

Glad to have watched the build up from this morning. Remarkable.

Shayper · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:12

Steedie said:

This is the single greatest gif. Evar.

Westyfield2 · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:12

VaderDSL said:
The ISS has a permanently docked Soyuz does it not to act as an emergency capsule?

Correct.

Westyfield2 · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:13

When's the press conference then? I got bored of "shortly"

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fozzybear · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:13

Official results:

Speed of 706mph with 4min19secs of freefall from 128,097feet.

That 729mph that showed was way off. His chute did open at 4min16sec as well.

chris_r · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:15

That was so amazing to watch. WOW

RomanNose · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:16

I am surprised he slowed down enough to survive with balls that big.

KatanaDV20 · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:16

So shocked at the lack of interest from ALL my friends. Excitedly posted this to my FB as Felix was ascending in the capsule. Sent some texts out as well. First reply was "Amazin, will check it out later, @ ____ place playin Battlefield, u should come over!"

......

Oh well, not all of us are the same. At least I find like-minded people in this GD thread

One · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:17

fozzybear said:
Official results:

Speed of 706mph with 4min19secs of freefall from 128,097feet.

That 729mph that showed was way off. His chute did open at 4min16sec as well.

That's 3 out of 4. I bet Kissinger is secretly happy he still has a record too

LiamC · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:22

Altitude: 128,097 ft
Duration of freefall: 4:19
Total jump time: 9:03
Speed: 1137 kmh

Westyfield2 · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:22

"Speed of 706mph with 4min19secs of freefall from 128,097feet."

Wonder if it was the speed lost during the spin that caused him not to reach mach1?

The_One · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:23

fozzybear said:
Official results:

Speed of 706mph with 4min19secs of freefall from 128,097feet.

That 729mph that showed was way off. His chute did open at 4min16sec as well.

they arent official results they are prelim :rolleyes:

msmalls74 · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:24

But he did reach it, 690MPh at that height i thought was Mach 1?

VaderDSL · 14 Oct 2012 at 20:25

msmalls74 said:
But he did reach it, 690MPh at that height i thought was Mach 1?

Yup, he didn't reach Mach 1 (based on the speed of sound at sea level) but he did reach Mach 1 at 100,000 feet or whenever his max speed was.