Wednesday, December 19, 2012

A Day Later, The Space Jump Guy Is OK, But How About The Rest Of Us? | Essentials

A Day Later, The Space Jump Guy Is OK, But How About The Rest Of Us?

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More than 7 million people were watching as Felix Baumgartner sat at the edge of his space capsule yesterday 24 miles off the ground and got ready to jump, in what was known as the "Red Bull Stratos" project, better known as the "space jump." I saw it myself; he opened the door, and there was something there that certainly seemed to be space. (Astrophysicist and science translator Neil deGrasse Tyson has pointed out that if you consider it relative to the size of Earth, this doesn't really seem like space or anything like it, but that's just him being all scientific about it, and this is about wonder, rational or not. ) I held my breath. They took him through his checklist.

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