Posted on 10/14/2012 9:06:00 AM PDT by redreno
As I watched the altitude barometric pressure was dropping precipitously. The pressure from the capsule and balloon would have been expanding to compensate. One heck of an event to watch.
I think this record will be broken in a few years. How?
Have the skydiver jump out of the Virgin Galactic spaceplane on one of its sub-orbital flights.
Imagine jumping out at 330K+ feet and sky diving all the way down!
I guess it was Col. Stapp.
I suppose they recovered the capsule, and the balloon must just eventually collapse and drift back to earth. I bet someone finds it.
The capsule released the balloon and a parachute was deployed.
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