scrubbedexpat141

It was quality. I was more impressed by the general imagery of him stood on a ledge, outside a big silver box, under a balloon, in space. Those images were absolutely mega.

The freefall etc would have been more exciting if there had been some serious issues.

Theseus

I was pretty worried about him when he was spinning klike that - though i assumed he was ok as they said he had an emergency chute which would deploy is the G force was too great.

Ditzy

The ten minutes before he jumped were quite hair-rasing! especially when they thought it would have stopped rising but it was going at 2,000 feet per minute!

sitting on the edge of your seat sort of stuff!

Meow

The jump re-enacted

http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/b...ted-with-legos

Boomhauer

So White man can jump?

OleJanx

No, only fall. Jump = up. He went








down...

scrubbedexpat141

Epic

shiva

superb link, absolutely superb.

Boomhauer

Dam, you're right
And here I thought I was being witty.

Blue Cat

absolutely amazing he must have nerves of steel!

Beakersful

When he reported he was having some difficulties as his visor was steamed up I was thinking if I was in his position I'd be reporting my visor was covered in chunks and my boots were filling up.

Kix

And from Felix's head camera...

http://www.redbullstratos.com/galler...a1902707739001

Boomhauer

I wonder how the team sorted out the issue of opening a chute while travelling at 800+ mph.

auzdafluff

I don't think he was travelling that fast for long. As I understood it, he was able to reach those speeds due to the lack of atmosphere that high up.

As the atmosphere became thicker, it slowed him down, and also gave him more control over his direction, spin, and velocity.

Kix

As I posted on face**** and twatter

Dear Religion,
This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school.
Yours,
Science.