Felix Baumgartner is traveling to jump from the bend of space. If successful, he's traveling to become the aboriginal man in history to go supersonic after any automated propulsion aid whatsoever. He's now accepting ready.
Update: the barrage was aborted. You can watch the video of the arrest and the after-effects here.
He will breach abounding records. One of them was set by United States Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger on August 16, 1960. Kittinger jumped from the Excelsior III balloon, which at the time was aerial at 102,800 feet-that's 19.47 afar or 31 kilometers up in the sky. Felix will do at atomic 120,000 feet, 23 miles.
More importantly, if aggregate goes right, he will be the aboriginal man to go supersonic after any propulsion aid. That has to hurt.
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6:15PM Here's a photo of Felix accepting out of the capsule:
2:28PM Just added a video of the abort. Closing the reside advantage until the next barrage window. Thank you all for account and watching, and godspeed Felix! Next time it will be the acceptable one.
2:06PM Mission ascendancy hasn't told us if the barrage will be resumed, but with the acclimate accepting worse over the next brace days, it will accept to adjournment at atomic until Friday. Stay acquainted for updates.
2:04PM Once again, the barrage has been aborted because of abundant winds, which started just as they were accessible to roll. The botheration with abundant apprehension at barrage is that they can accomplish the abridged animation around. The inherent risks in that for both the abridged and its pilot are obvious.
2:01PM Kittinger looks sad at arena ascendancy too.
1:49PM They are demography him out of the capsule.
1:48PM Felix looks pissed off.
1:46PM The acclimate is traveling to adulterate over the next two days, which is why they were blame for a barrage today.
1:43PM The apprehension accept added just now and mission ascendancy says they accept to abolish the launch.
1:42PM Oh no. The barrage has been cancelled!
1:38PM For those who asked, yes, Felix can pee in his suit. He has a appropriate UCD accessory that will acquiesce him to do this safely. That will abstain any Alan Shepard situation at the barrage pad of his Freedom 7 mission.
1:37PM AND IT STARTS! All systems ready.
1:31PM We accept time for the fourth almanac to be torn today if aggregate goes as planned: Felix will acquaintance the longest chargeless abatement in history, an accepted 5 account and 35 seconds. The accepted almanac aswell belongs to his coach Kittinger: 4 account and 36 seconds.
1:29PM Official advertisement has been delayed 5 added minutes.
1:25PM Felix is beggared in the abridged now. His words to arena control:
"I am beggared into the capsule, and I am accessible to go."
That reminds me of the launch arena from Contact. "OK to go!" We are accessible too.
1:19PM Here's Felix just afore accepting aloft into the capsule:
1:15PM Or maybe he's calm and concentrated. Remember that he has done basic all-overs before, afar from his acquaintance jumping from acute places like the Petronas towers, so he knows what he is doing. Still, the accomplished supersonic acceleration and the parachute deployment is still a big catechism mark, as it has never been accomplished before.
1:14PM This guy is such a badass. He's apparently just thinking: "I may end up burst or in pieces, but what a ride this is traveling to be."
1:07PM Aggrandizement of the airship has begun.
1:00PM Felix is entering the capsule! Here's an angel of him abutting the vehicle:
12:56PM They accept pushed the advertisement alpha to 1:30PM EDT. This is killing me.
12:50PM I anticipate Felix is traveling to accept a ride even added animating than an absolute rocket flight to space. While it accept to be amazing to feel the barrage of a Soyuz and afresh reside in orbit, the adventure and adrenalin blitz of this amplitude jump accept to be off the charts. What do you think? Address your thoughts in the comments.
12:49PM All systems nominal. 10 account till the official advertisement starts. 25 account till launch! Oh boy.
12:41PM Aback to the acceleration record, cipher absolutely knows what's absolutely traveling to arise if Felix goes supersonic. Some humans accept that, accepting such a baby accumulation and the atmosphere accepting so thin, he will not ache (much).
The clothing will be ecology him, sending abstracts to the arena and befitting oxygen and burden levels so he survives the fall. Hopefully, it will all plan appropriate and his physique will sustain the acute distance he is traveling to go through.
Things will get agitated up there. Watch this. While this is a dramatization from the cine The Appropriate Stuff, Yeager's almanac was absolutely a ride.
12:35PM Acclimate still good. South wind is alone 0.8mph (1.3km/h).
12:30PM Reminder: Felix is pre-breathing, accepting adapted to the distance in the abridged down actuality on Earth. Look at him, sitting there so calmly. I admiration what's traveling through his head.
Someone on Twitter: "They are replacing his claret with Red Bull."
12:24PM If successful, this will be the aboriginal time in history that any animal alcove the acceleration of complete after automated propulsion. The aboriginal animal to ability that acceleration application a even was the allegorical Chuck Yeager: he bankrupt the complete barrier on October 14, 1947, aerodynamics the Bell X-1:
12:23PM The third almanac will be speed. Felix is accepted to ability and beat Mach 1, the acceleration of sound. That's an amazing 690MPH. The accepted almanac belongs to Kittinger, who accomplished 614MPH, Mach 0.9.
12:17PM Aggregate is proceeding as expected.
12:09PM By the way, there's a challenge to assumption area Felix will land. You can play it here and get a Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th watch. Not bad.
12:01PM Felix is accepting accessible now to pre-breathe.
11:59AM Ok, people, this is happening. I'm starting to aberration out now. Felix is now accepting assisted as he puts his clothing on. Aggregate is traveling as planned. Here's a photo of the moment, taken a few abnormal ago:
11:57AM Countdown is aback up. Accepted barrage time: 11:15AM MDT (1:30PM EDT)
11:54AM Here's a photo of Kittinger's jump. This is what Baumgartner is adverse today, the a lot of alarming skydive you can imagine:
11:45AM So while we adjournment for the aggregation to arrange the balloon, here's the additional almanac that Felix is traveling to break: the freefall from the accomplished altitude. The antecedent almanac was set by United States Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger on August 16, 1960. His all-overs were acute for the amplitude program. That day he jumped from 102,800 feet. The Austrian charlatan will jump from a minimum of 120,000 feet.
Kittinger is one of Felix's advisors. His acquaintance has been acute for this flight. This is Felix and Joe next to a photo of the closing about the time of the aboriginal almanac amplitude jump.
11:35AM Look at the airship aggregation deploying it reside now.
11:32AM The airship that will yield the abridged up to 120,000 anxiety (or higher) is absolutely huge: 30 actor cubic aboveboard feet!
11:29AM Things assume to be traveling according to plan now. I'm accepting aflame again.
11:07AM Airship blueprint has started in alertness to aggrandizement and launch. Here's a photo of the airship aggregation accepting it accessible for deployment:
11:06AM Mission has been resumed. Acclimate seems bright and mission ascendancy will accord an amend soon.
10:07AM The abridged is on the flight band and cat-and-mouse for the next amend by the mission meteorologist. The flight has not been cancelled. Still cat-and-mouse for acclimate change.
9:34AM Mission astrologer Don Day says that they are cat-and-mouse for the wind to calm down.
9:27AM Another adjournment acquired by acclimate conditions. This time 11:30AM MDT (1:30PM EDT) is the ancient launch. We will accumulate updating. What a let down. Come on weather, bright up!
9:09AM Barrage has been delayed now: 8:30AM MDT (10:30AM EDT).
9:02AM This is a photo of Prather and Ross in the Stratolab-V. Compared to Stratos' top tech capsule, it looks like a aerial head laminated with foil.
8:56AM If aggregate goes right—and accomplish no mistake, there are affluence of affairs of things traveling wrong—Felix will breach four apple records. The aboriginal is the accomplished manned ballon flight: at atomic 120,000 feet. It could go college than that. The accepted almanac belongs to Lieutenant Commander Victor A. Prather Jr. and US Navy Reserve Captain Malcolm D. Ross, who climbed up to 113,740 anxiety in May 4, 1961.
8:49AM This analogy shows absolutely the action and annal that Felix will break, four in total. On the left: one of Felix's endure training sessions in a photo from Sunday, October 7. Click on the images to aggrandize them to abounding screen.
8:41AM Here's the man and his suit:
8:38AM It's account acquainted that this is accepting done not just for the stunt: Felix's clothing is loaded with sensors that will accommodate actual admired abstracts to NASA and added amplitude agencies. Cipher has jumped afore this top and this fast.
8:36AM I mean, he has done a few basic jumps, but this one is traveling to breach the complete barrier. What will arise then?
8:35AM Ancient barrage is now 8:00AM MDT (10AM EDT). There's not reside complete from the site. I'm not jumping and I accept a bond in my stomach, cerebration about what Felix accept to be traveling through now.
8:33AM We got complete for a few seconds. Things arise to be affective on.
8:27AM Here's how it will all happen: The 41-year old Austrian Baumgartner will jump from an distance of 23 afar (120,000 anxiety or 37 kilometers), accepting abutting to the bend of the stratosphere. If he does that, he will abatement for an estimated 5 account and 30 seconds, breaking the acceleration of complete in the process. After aerial at Mach 1 for a while, he will accessible his parachute at one mile (about 1,500 meters). If aggregate goes ok, he will ability the arena 10 account later.
8:18AM Felix said bygone that abhorrence was a acceptable acquaintance of his, as it fabricated him go "not too far." I achievement he's not bubbler a lot of Red Bull as they altercate acclimate distance at the site. Here's Luke Aikins and the blow of the Stratos aggregation searching at the acclimate distance over Roswell.
8:14AM In the meantime, you can watch the aurora in Roswell, New Mexico. Pretty.
8:08AM The mission is now on acclimate hold, but things are accepting ready. Here's an angel of the airship that will yield Felix 23 afar up in space.
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