It's done, Felix Baumgartner of Austria has set a new world record for a parachute jump, over 128,000 feet, 4 min 20 sec freefall. He is on the ground and safe...

It was cool, watching the whole thing from preparing to jump from inside the capsule, sepping outside the capsule and then, actually watching him step off of the capsule. He was tumbling a bit shortly after jumping, but soon regained control as soon as the air density allowed him control... Watched his whole flight from capsule to ground, a smooth landing.

Ain't technology grand...

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Amazing and awesome and scary at the same time.

I was simply unable to watch it live in case something went wrong, but I'm watching it now on YouTube.

Tremendous stuff!

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I was watching it live on YouTube and every time they showed the balloon above the capsule shortly before the skydive I was getting worried about the damn thing bursting!!! It looked so full even though the commentators were saying that gas was being vented out of it. And it is only the thickness of a plastic shopping bag or something like that!!!

curiousity note:

I know that Felix and the capsule came down to earth, but what happened (or happens) to the balloon? Anyone know for sure?

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What i heard last about it is people saw in expanding more and more so basically a explanation will be it exploded very up in the sky where pressure is very low that the helium pressure can break free from the cover of balloon.

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That part was more or less a given, unless the gas was vented through the valves at the top of the balloon. But WHERE did the balloon end up???
That is the question... draped over someones house, maybe???

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I noticed there was what looked like a red button on the right side of the capsule exit. Did the pilot(?) hit that when he jumped and that was a vent for the balloon? Presumably the capsule would then deploy a parachute automatically as it descended.

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I saw that red button before he exited the capsule and when the guy at the control center was going thru the checkoff list, that was one of the last things that were checked off, but I can't remember just what it was for. Felix DID press the red button shortly before he stepped off of the capsule.

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Somewhere in space, I reckon. There's so much debris above our atmosphere that it's becoming a hazard, according to NASA.

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