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WATCH LIVE 10/9: 8:30am EST - Record Skydive from 23 miles up [UPDATE: SUCCESS!!]

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Must be bitter sweet for Kittinger, bitter because he wanted to see the free fall record broken, sweet because his record was the on that was going to be broken.
 
One of my fondest memories of reading when I was a child, was a reader's digest story on the test pilot that mentored him, that held the old record. This was truly inspiring to see that long influential memory attempted/ re-done live. AWESOME>
 
Must have used half of Earth's supply of helium.

Where do we get that much helium from? As I understand it, helium rises so high that solar rays strip it away from the atmosphere, so Earth will eventually have no helium.
 
Nice landing! That final shot before he jumped is incredible. The overhead camera.

How come no one handed him a bottle of RedBull at the end?
 
DCal430 said:
Though he did break other records, fastest free fall, highest man balloon climb, and highest parachute jump.
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I think highest parachute jump is really the key one. Especially paired with fastest fall. Nothing about the 1960 jump is really better when you have those two things.

Why don't be get people into orbit this way? Seems like it would take a lot less energy to have a couple rockets on that thing to get it into orbit, as opposed to lifting a shuttle the first 120k
 
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