Spacediving.

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Jun 27, 2007 at 1:34 pm

150_spacedivers.jpgRe-entry from space without a ship is not something to be taken lightly, although someday spacediving might save lives. A 60-mile freefall is possible, but would require a special suit and helmet. Rick Tumlinson, founder of the Space Frontier Foundation, and former NASA flight surgeon Jonathan Clark formed the company Orbital Outfitters to produce such a suit. Link -via Metafilter.


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  1. Alex
    Jun 27th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    Like the article mention, Joe Kittinger did an 18-mile space jump in 1960.

  2. Ali S.
    Jun 27th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    An extreme sport like that would be alot of fun if I weren’t so deathly afraid of heights.


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