Skydive from the Stratosphere

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From: Bill Taylor (bt4_1284@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 11:47:07 PDT 

Message-ID: <20030530184707.17247.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Taylor <bt4_1284@yahoo.com>
Subject: Skydive from the Stratosphere

On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger rode a helium balloon 19 and a half
miles above the Earth's surface, and leapt out into the near vacuum of the
stratosphere. Almost 14 minutes later he landed on solid ground.

Unfortunately, I am old enough to vaguely remember this happening. The
feat has never been successfully duplicated. (It has been attempted -
guess what happened.)

The link below is an interactive reenactment of Kittinger's
record-breaking jump. Have fun trying to figure out how you can deploy a
set of parachutes when falling from this altitude!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/escape/skydive.html

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Bill Taylor
San Francisco
415 661 9667

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